I didn’t know that birds had the brain capacity to taunt another animal, but my dogs nemeses, the crane next door apparently does. I am out back and the crane is on the other side of the fence just sitting there while my dogs are barking up a storm. The crane decides to take flight and go up the hill. The dogs go up our yard in hopes of staying up with their enemy, however as soon as the dogs commit to one direction the crane make a 180 degree turn and comes and lands on our side of the fence right where the dogs were right in front of me. The dogs don’t see this because they ran up the hill, when they come back here is the crane standing right there. They go berserk and go after it, and it casually flies over to the other side of our pond. The dogs go nuts and go after it again. Now the crane flies right back to this side of the pond, right in front of me again. The dogs are besides themselves now and come running back again. The crane plays the ultimate game of chicken and just stands there very calm until the dogs are right on it and just in the nick of time it takes off and goes back on the other side of the fence where this all started. The crane just stood there and I swear he held up his middle feather again.
Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.