Whoa

During my first visit to Stuart, FL's Kingswood Condo complex, I purchased a bag of black-shelled sunflower seeds from Dollar General so as to feed the birds -- many quite large and ranging about the complex. Carrion-eating is quite a ghastly nutritional method, and the seeds are a welcome change from the sight of small mammals being carried away and stripped pelts lying around.

As previously reported, I had discovered a tiny artifact when I was a child and have been constantly seeking an appropriate container to hold it, during the past four+ decades, such as a jar of some kind.

Lo and behold, while removing trash from the nearby preserve-type property, I discovered a black thin-walled bulb-type thing lying in the grass beneath the palm trees -- it appeared to have been a meld of cast-off sunflower seeds, and was hollow as a jar is but very fragile, as if a large bird had swallowed many sunflower seeds, absorbed their inner contents, and then expelled the remaining compressed seedshells from an execretory organ having some volume.

The tiny artifact had been discovered beneath a limestone roadside-rest monument in northwestern Pennsylvania.