Angry Birds

    Have you ever been at war with nature?  Some days it feels like nature is at war with me.  The robins fired the first shot, or so I first suspected. Intrigued by his own reflection in the windows at the winery a rather plump fellow tried to attack "himself" in the windows every day wreacking mess and havoc all over the sills and panes.  Next a rather noisy robust female robin decided to make her home in the beams above the pergola.  Amused by her choice of nesting sites, I decided to allow the interloper to stay.  Having raised her young, she and the four squatters have since moved...