I made a serious mistake today. In my zeal to embrace my New Years' Resolution to stop worrying so much about what Harley eats, I gave all the birds some fresh beets. Not the wimpy orange ones I've tried in the past, but traditional, scary-poop-producing red ones! It's Red Food Day! That'll show me to worry about what birds eat!

But as it turns out, the Finsters think beets are evil. Not even Oolong, who loooves her tasty seeds, could overcome her fear of the tiny red bits. She tried: she hopped down and even perched on the dish a couple of times, looking at those crazy vegetables. But in the end, not even she could bring herself to pick out the real food. So after a few hours I gave them some of tomorrow's seeds, sans any veg at all, and put the tainted batch outside for the Wild Finster Cousins. I think they ate the grains, and left all the vegetables behind. Of course.

Harley wasn't upset by the bits of beet, he just ignored everything on his plate and ate the couch for awhile.

Over in the Messing With My Head department, yesterday — for the first time in weeks — Harley climbed down from his perch to steal food from the Finsters. You can see him here drinking a piece of carrot.