Nibbling

Verdin are very, very tiny birds.  In fact, people who see them land on my nectar feeder mistake them for hummingbirds.  They also love  peanuts.  Their wee beaks are too small to do any damage to one in a shell but they'll snatch up bits and fly into a cholla cactus or into my Texas Ranger bush to nibble it.  They're surprisingly dexterous, too.  I've seen them balance the nut on a branch holding it there with one claw and gnawing away.  Pretty entertaining to watch.

This quacked me up. Enjoy!  ~
There was a duck who walked into a store and said, “got any candy?” The storekeeper said, “no, we don’t.” The next day, the duck went into the same store and asked the same thing and got the same answer. The duck kept going back every day for a week and asked the same thing and kept getting the same answer until the store keeper got so angry he said, “if you come in here and ask that again, I will hit you on the head with a hammer!” The next day, the duck walks into the store and asks, “got a hammer?” The store keeper says, “no.” Then the duck asks, “got any candy?”

HA!!