It's funny watching the sparrows and tauhou eating my persimmons (having resigned myself to the fact that I can't stop them; the only way to get any persimmons for myself is to pick them while still hard and let them ripen for a week or more on my bench.)
The sparrows will sit on a twig underneath the persimmon and streeeetch their necks up to get at the underside of a persimmon. They're much taller than tauhou (and one will sometimes use its size to bully a tauhou out of its way) but eventually they run out of stretch and begin to look like a very sad Tantalus.
Tauhou meanwhile will perch on much thinner twigs and by "perch" I mean "hang upside down from while twisting their head off to one side". They are tiny little acrobatic persimmon-devouring machines. I saw a few poking at branches and initially thought "Oh that's nice, they're hunting insects to mix some protein into that sugar" but after a bit more observation I think they're just cleaning their beaks before they dive in for another helping.








