FREEPATHON
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Posted on 09/06/2015 1:58:43 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Those who have learned the value of a life. Any life, in form or gestating.
That’s the song!!
If guess it couldn’t be an instrumental, not with that Mantra.
Please don’t you be very long,
For I may be asleep..
That is a good story. I can see it play out in my mind. Totally believable! Birds are capable of both gratitude and revenge.
Yeah.
And flying did have some humming/la la la-ing, but it was essentially instrumental. No lyrics.
I always referred to blue jays as crows dressed up for Sunday.They both are criminals of the bird world.
"We had a deal!"
Yep...Jays used to fly into my kitchen for a bite to eat!
I like those guys.
When I’m in the yard (surrounded by woods, coyotes, and bears) and I hear the Jays, I know to look around to see what has concerned them.
I love having them as sentries.
Yep, Jays and Crows are a smart as a whip. Crows are crazy smart birds. I’m not familiar with Magpies.
Jays are super smart, yes. Very very smart. Several of them lived in one of our oak trees and they would let Dad feed them walnuts and cheese, right from his fingertips. But, one jay was waiting for Dad’s cat to go to sleep on the warm concrete... and then the jay would sneak up on the cat and squawk or even peck kitty’s behind....to wake her up.
Kitty was very upset, especially as this playful behavior continued day after day after sunny day....
until one fine afternoon, Kitty only feigned sleep. Jay snuck up to have his fun... and Lo and Behold! Kitty executed an AMAZING VTOL leap straight up (from a fully prone position flat on the concrete)... about 4 feet into the air, then did a very quick 180 degree rotation and... landed right on top of the startled jay. End of bird. (Kitty didn’t need us to feed her lunch that day, either.)
Those guys would come up and knock on my window with their beaks. “Hey buddy, ya got one of those peanuts”? He’d go hide it and come back for more and his buddies would quickly zoom in on where the other one stashed it and dig it out.
Great stuff.
They’re intelligent birds. We have many oak trees on our property, and abut a large forested area.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/blue_jay/lifehistory
I found a baby (Scrub Jay) one wandering outside my house one night. I captured him (?) and penned him in a pet carrier one night. I finally let him go that night to his fate outside again, because he was injuring himself bloody trying to escape. Was going to call in to work and take him to wildlife rehab in the am.
Hope the little guy made it.
I beg to differ. Up here magpies compete with Ravens for roadkill. In over 50 years of driving, I have seen only a couple ravens killed on the road. I saw a flock of magpies ahead on the highway, eating a roadkill.
I did not slow down, as I assumed they were as smart as ravens, and would fly. They did, but it was too late. I hit five or six of them, It made a stunning black and white snowstorm behind us. Since then, i will brake for them, but I will not swerve. I am not going to kill myself or others to save a bunch of stupid birds.
That said, googling "smartest bird" yields several results, with magpie, crow, and African grey typically vying for the top thinker.
So, I guess whatever you say, someone will agree!
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