Unintended Consequences

Here we are at post 2,800.  Who’d have thought?  Not me for sure. That is like over 7.5 years of posts.  I was…well…over 7.5 years younger when I started.
I have written about unintended consequences before.  I mentioned one where a number of solar panels were pointed towards a point that converted the heat to electricity.  The unintended consequence was that birds flying through the unseen heat were instantly cooked.
Another unintended consequences was putting little alarms in fish so their migratory patterns could be traced.  The unintended consequence was that the alarms were like dinner bells to predators, and the fish being studied were eaten.
We have a few unintended consequences from things we have done around here.
We put down some hollow cement bricks.  The idea was to put dirt in the and grow grass.  This meant we had a strong area we could drive on.  So we put down the bricks and filled them with dirt, then added grass seed fully expecting grass would grow and cover the bricks.  What we forgot was that we feed the birds seed.  They thought our new area was like a feeding zone.  I will never forget a pile of birds eating the seed we had put down.
The other again involved birds.  There are a coupe of birds we regard as our birds.  They are very trusting of us and we put extras and scraps aside for them.  Some of the same type are in the area too.  There were a couple of them with gammy legs.  We felt sorry for them and would let them eat.
What we did not anticipate that one of the birds mate who is bigger and stronger than any other bird would muscle into this area and treat it as their own.  Consequently “our birds” are shy to come here and I spend time watching over them when I feed them.
Another unintended consequence again involved birds and hanging pots.  We love the pots and put a few out.  Turns out the birds love the pots too.  Or should I say they love the coconut husk material and find it ideal for building their nests.  We now put heshen down first to prevent the birds taking the hessen for their nests.
They have been a couple of the lessons learned around here.  I read yesterday that a mistake is only a mistake if I do not learn from it.  We have learned our lessons, but it has been entertaining along the way.