We have Eastern Blue Jays with their quirky alien song. They'll also imitate the cries of raptors to scare all the wee songbirds away, then gorge themselves at the feeder.
We have one jay who sits all fluffy and askew on the tray feeder at the kitchen window each morning, looking either hung over or extremely drunk. Tom likes him.
My old apt. had one huge window that was about 4 feet away from an enormous jojoba nut tree that was home to a huge population of squirrels, bushtits, sparrows, other occasional songbirds, a rat or two, and one scrub jay who liked to do his very loud SQRAAAWK thing regularly at 6 every single morning. I affectionately named him Dickhead.
He was way too big for my birdfeeder, but he could sit on it - it's just that it didn't have room for him to balance, so he would basically hang upside down and do crunches in order to reach up & peck at the food. He was so funny.
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Date: 2006-03-18 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-18 07:31 pm (UTC)We have one jay who sits all fluffy and askew on the tray feeder at the kitchen window each morning, looking either hung over or extremely drunk. Tom likes him.
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Date: 2006-03-18 07:38 pm (UTC)My old apt. had one huge window that was about 4 feet away from an enormous jojoba nut tree that was home to a huge population of squirrels, bushtits, sparrows, other occasional songbirds, a rat or two, and one scrub jay who liked to do his very loud SQRAAAWK thing regularly at 6 every single morning. I affectionately named him Dickhead.
He was way too big for my birdfeeder, but he could sit on it - it's just that it didn't have room for him to balance, so he would basically hang upside down and do crunches in order to reach up & peck at the food. He was so funny.