The bird streamer

I just saw the most incredible thing. I was emptying the guest ashtray on my front porch when I noticed a sparrow flying over the street with about two feet of clear packing tape trailing behind it. It looked like a tiny plane holding a long, clear banner in its beak, and it rippled loudly through the air.

The tape is likely from a poster, taped around a pole reading "lost cat, yard sale "or "piano lessons."

It lands on a house across the street, where it's challenged by another sparrow. The challanger plucks the tape away, then flies to a telephone pole. There, the tape sticks to the pole and both birds lose the tape and whatever plans they had for it.