avianotes

It's birds with red eyes that are drawn to the (r)edible things in the garden—the bird's-eye chillies, the red gelatinous berries on a tree which I haven't yet been able to identify, the small red dates on a palm that grows near the pool.

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I do not see black-eyed birds at the red fruits. What is it that keeps them away? Do they not see them? Are the vibrations they give off in wavelengths that are impossible to detect if the eye is black? Are the red-eyed birds attuned to them? Is there some sort of symbiosis at work?