Wednesday, May 11, 2011

What's With This Guy?


This guy sat on the other side of the glass door and stared at me for twenty minutes. When he wasn't staring, he was talking. When I walked to the kitchen, he appeared at the kitchen window. More talking. When I went to sit in the living room, he showed up in the front window. He wasn't yelling at me, like that pissed off squirrel that used to give me a piece of his squirrel-mind every morning. This guy was just chatting.

When I finally went into the backyard, he did a couple of very close fly-bys near my head, then landed on a patio chair and yakked some more. I tired to introduce a new discussion topic but he dominated the conversation. This guy made it clear, my job was to listen.

11 comments:

  1. My parents have a couple of blue jay "friends" that visit like that. When this happens, those birds want peanuts. I suggest unshelled, raw nuts. It keeps the jays very busy hiding them and they shut up.

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  2. He was telling you that you need to put a birdfeeder out. He's hungry. Then he went on to explain the benefits of the bird feeder not only to himself but to other local and non-local birds.

    Yep.

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  3. I speak blue bird. He said you are Snow White in a Star Wars movie and he wants a bird feeder.

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  4. That's a scrub jay. 2 things come to mind. 1. It has a baby who has just fledged and is flopping around outside the nest learning to fly. So it is being extremely protective.
    2. It isn't seeing you in the window it is seeing its reflection and is defending its young against the "intruder". Hope that helps. Carl

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  5. I think he's in love with you. Who can blame him?

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  6. Yup, scrub jay. They are very social. He probably was visiting with you. I think you should go get him some peanuts. He'll have them hidden around the yard in 15 minutes. But just a warning that he'll be tucking them in your planters so the next time you dig in there you will find a couple.

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  7. Scrub jay, is he? I have never seen a bird like that. HE IS ADORABLE. I have a robin sitting on a nest in the lilac outside my dining room window. She has no interest in chatting, however. xo

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