Early Birds and Punctilious Worms

It's said "The early bird catches the worm".

I think I'm OCD enough to debate this.

You see, in speaking of fowlish punctuality, the statement suggests a bird's ability to also appear on time and/or late.

Logically, punctual & late birds catch the worm, too, or a)early birds would just be "birds" due to every bird possessing the same punctilious habits, or b) anything other than "early" would then fall out of the sky as a result of malnutrition, starvation, and irreversable deadness.

I surmise that only the most agile bird could indeed "catch" a worm, early or otherwise. Not to mention the unlikelyhood of any worm enduring the bird's schedule of prompt attendence.

Bird and worm, for sake of argument, may or may not live according to the same time-table but we'll assume worm's schedule is relative to the early bird's or, theoretically speaking, the "bird" as a whole to make the statement more logical.

A proper quote would indicate that "birds catch worms".

Unfortunately, this modification unintentionally makes this quote the most boring statement ever.

In setting to right silly notions of birds catching anything, we can ponder fowl biology.

Naturally, as predators go, birds don't "catch" their food. Instead, birds traditionally yank worms out of the ground with a complete disregard of worm's timing as it pertains to the bird's presence and subsequently adding to the worm's demise.

Prudently altering the quote dynamic to reflect these truths creates another bit a quote perfection,

"The bird, fully ignorant of schedules, pulls the equally ignorant worm from the earth and devours it."

So when do we get to hold a bird in the hand and estimate value to the two birds in a bush? Not today.....

(And this is what my brain does waiting 30 min for a Health Occ Advisor to change my major)