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- From: dmiller@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Dick and Jill Miller)
- Subject: Re: Birds in the garden
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.143234.25317@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:32:34 GMT
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- >Maybe BLUE and STELLERS jays, but scrub jays will come right
- >into your living room, if you offer them the proper bribe,
- >like a large peanut in the shell. (You may suspect I have a
- >large amount of experience with this.) Once they get in the
- >mood for hustling peanuts, which doesn't take long, scrub jays
- >will come take peanuts out of your hand very readily, and can
- >be enticed to porches, into houses, etc. As a matter of fact,
- >they are sometimes known to knock on the window and demand
- >peanuts, if you're not forthcoming. Stellers jays are more
- >timid, but I've still gotten them onto the porch within a few
- >feet of humans, before being chased off by the scrub jays, who
- >resented them stealing *their* peanuts.
- >
- >Be warned that while it's very gratifying to have jays take
- >peanuts out of your hand, it won't be long before they're
- >demanding peanuts morning, noon, and night.
-
- He is in Minnesota, if I remember correctly, so he'll have neither Steller
- nor Scrub jays, only Blue jays and possibly Grey jays. The Greys are like
- Scrub jays; very bold. Bluejays however are quite timid.
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- >Humans are SO trainable!
-
- Ain't that the truth!
-
- --Jill
-
- P.S. I think this thread should move over to the rec.????.birds group if
- it wants to go on longer.
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