I’ve discovered the secret life of worms.
After the wind and rain last week, I noticed lots of leaves lying around on the concrete outside my bedroom door. Except that Calypso the puppy seemed unusually interested in eating them. She eats anything her mouth can reach, but not usually leaves. Then I realized that the little curled up black things were dead worms. Hundreds of them.
Calypso and the magpies were delighted to eat dried up worm carcases.
I’d known that worms tend to crawl to the surface when it rains. In the US they call them “nightcrawlers” for that habit. Every bait store near a fishing spot in America advertises them on amateurish hand-scrawled signs. I’d assumed they were something specially American like chiggers, rattlesnakes, or armadillos, but no, just earthworms.
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