Perceiving Through Their Eyes For my Ecological Perception Experience, I decided to sit under my avocado tree around 7 PM to escape the heat on August 18, 2012. Before starting this assignment, I thought that I would have trouble finding something to write about; however, within even the first five minutes of stepping outside, I found that nature was all around me if I paid attention. First, a huge fly started flying all around me; I fought the urge to swat it away so that I can watch it. It landed on the edge of the table I was sitting at, and its legs twitched furiously. I stayed as still as I could as it crept closer. Although it was too small to tell, it seemed to be watching me with its red eyes. I don’t know a lot about a fly’s anatomy, but I know they have multiple lenses in their eyes, so it was weird trying to picture how I looked to the fly. After a few minutes of watching each other, the fly tried to get on my nectarine so I reflexively lifted my hand to shoo it. I had barely moved my arm before the fly took off. I began to complain to myself that I couldn’t concentrate with these two squirrels communicating with each other in the tree. Then I realized that this is part of the assignment, and I started to pa close attention to them. One grabbed a hold of a pretty large avocado and already ate half of it. The other was jealously staring and observing the other eating, even though there was plenty more avocadoes this squirrel could have gotten for itself. After