Love this story, @pokerm. You captured the simplicity and charm that can sometimes be observed in the animal world. Perhaps kitty wasn't hungry, or perhaps the elegant dance of birds getting their fill was too entertaining to ruin it.
Nice job with the prompt!
I'm grateful for your kind words. As I wrote the story I saw the scene before my eyes (in my head). I'm glad that you had a sense of what I saw.
Thank you very much for your support.
That's a wonderful feeling, when you seem to be painting something that exists, vs. making up the story in your head.
I recently listened to two people who do improvisation describing this phenomenon. They walk onto a stage in front of an audience with no script, having no idea where their performance will take them. Soon one of them says something, then the other, and a story begins to take shape. Dimensions and characters and sub-plots emerge. They don't really even understand the phenomenon, but the two improvs agree on one thing: they are not making it up. They are simply relaying a story that is real and that exists in some dimension. So bizarre! But it did remind me of that feeling I get sometimes when writing fiction - that I'm recording something that needs to be told, not making it up.