Not an Angry Bird (If only I could Sing)

            It's Friday, and there's a bird, sitting on a fence, he's waiting.  

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I like these jays, they are so smart, but they squawk, if only they could sing :-) 

Now Mike, a raven relative who spent a few months at the nearby rescue center could stretch those vocal chords.  The handlers had to learn to keep quiet around him as he learned their names and the word for food. The handlers were worried he'd get too domesticated and show up on peoples doorsteps asking for food rather than settling back into the wild.  So handlers and visitors all had to be quiet in his presence.  However, ever the showman, Mike would imitate the calls of the birds flying past.  

Given time, i am sure Mike would have been able to say, "Feed Me Leroy" and maybe have his own youtube channel.  

I like these jays, they are so brave.

In spring we go into the forest to look for owls.  It's been our best time to find them as they must work around the clock to feed their chicks and get them airborne.  They seem to return to the same nests each year, which is a help.  The ones we visit ignore humans, but do not like dogs.  So we see them hunt and watch the chicks climb trees and jump back down.  

Enter the jay.  

When the owls are out hunting, the nest may be quiet, but when the owl enters jay territory, they are easy to find, as the noise from the jays is incredible.  The forest erupts with squawks.  The owl seems to be able to tune this out.  We watched an owl, surveying the landscape with a scrub jay, perched right next to the owl, squawking straight into his ear.   It reminds me of how the crows and the ravens mob the raptors and chase them across the sky.  

Jays can be so polite.

The scrubs jays appear to give way to the stellar jays when we feed them.  So there is much patience, as the stellar appears to be fussy.  They will lift peanuts, shake them, seemingly weighing them, and flick it aside if it doesn't feel right.  They scatter peanuts all over the place, till they find about five they like.  Three in the crop, and two in the beak.  The scrub will just pick the first five it finds and is off.  

Now we don't feed all day, and not at first light, usually late morning, and mostly in winter.  They seem to know this, and if there isn't any food, they do ask.  I know some birds will even tap on your window, but the jays are happy to just squawk at us from the tree.

But when all is quiet, and the jays are off doing other things, the little birds come, and once in a while,  a flicker will appear.   And sometimes, when the feeder is busy, everyone scatters then there is a hawk, right there.

Taken on: January 1, 2016

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