The Acorn Catapult

I trotted out through the front gate and scampered down the path to the park's sunlit picnic tables! Right on the weathered cedar boards, someone had left a flat wooden ice-cream stick balanced squarely over a plump brown acorn, making a miniature seesaw. Naturally, I had to test the physics! I nudged a bright red plastic bottle cap onto the lowered end with my beak, took two quick hops back, and threw my round belly straight onto the high side. Thwack! The wood smacked down, flinging the red cap sailing through the air until it landed with a clean clatter inside an empty tin cup. Chuckling, I gave my tail feathers a triumphant flutter!