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Little shop visitor yesterday
Had a little visitor yesterday while working in the shop. She (or he?) hung out from about 8am till 6pm. Flight capable, but didn't want to leave. Eventually, I heard from my neighbor that there was another in a bush in his yard, and that the parents had been fighting with a pair of crows. So we took her over and reunited with the parents.
Well... hello there...  Let's go...  Pretty sure I am not a nest...  I'll just sleep here then...  "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."  Eventually, she started squawking at me. So I left and got some meal worms. She could have left at any time, as the garage door was open. She stayed. And ate plenty. Had she chosen to keep us, I would have named her BB (King) Hope she visits more often.
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06-06-2019, 08:14 AM
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That is cool. We have a pair of Bluebirds in a birdhouse we put up. They are pretty birds. The male sure sings a lot.
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06-06-2019, 08:23 AM
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We had another visitor back in 2015...a little older.
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06-06-2019, 08:29 AM
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The bird whisperer !
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06-06-2019, 10:24 AM
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That’s so cool.
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06-06-2019, 10:32 AM
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That's awesome.....thanks for your generosity and gentleness for another living being, Wolfe!
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06-06-2019, 10:34 AM
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I had a crow for a little while.
it would sit in a tree and when I walked out side it would fly down low to the ground (like a foot or 2 off the ground) towards me then at the last minute it would swoop up and land on my head. had it for a few weeks. then one when I did not go out for a few days it was gone,
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06-06-2019, 10:36 AM
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We have a few California Scrub Jays nesting in our yard. They are very defensive of their nests. My wife was trimming a large hedge just outside our backdoor and was getting dive bombed - yep a nest with eggs was in it. They are brave to the point of death. I watched one trying to chase off a black crow, once the crow landed the jay flew in next to it and ended up being lunch. Birds are vicious.
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06-06-2019, 10:38 AM
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OK, so you have Blue Jay. We have Bluebirds.
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06-06-2019, 11:00 AM
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 Not my picture, but our birds are these.
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06-06-2019, 11:03 AM
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Such an earnest expression on his/her lil' face. Good skills looking after her.
I was doing a renovation on a old house before Christmas and a baby bird appeared on the back lawn, and decided I was it's best friend. Umm, I thought this bird is not going to last as the area is puss cat city. But by the end of the week he was a feisty healthy bird who LOL still thought of me as his bestie. |
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06-06-2019, 11:25 AM
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I feed a couple of hawks. They're a pair. Sometimes they get anxious and will land within about six feet and just look at me - at least one will. One afternoon one of them got so impatient, it flew down from behind & tried to grab the piece of meat from my hand while I was carrying it. Knocked the meat from my hand and scratched me with its talons. Here they are a few minutes ago waiting for me, one snatching the morsel up, & then feeding on the power pole.
  
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06-06-2019, 04:24 PM
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Visitor to my place in Vermont
 Very skilled at fishing 
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Non-threatening interactions with a wild animal are show stoppers for me. I enjoy watching all the flying things (owls, bats, woodpeckers, cardinals, jays, robins, chickadees, juncos, wrens, eagles, hawks, bees...) that regularly show up around here as well as the ever-present deer and rare black bear. Somehow, it reminds me that lots of things matter more than the daily grind.
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06-06-2019, 04:59 PM
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This Peregrine didn't mind at all when I walked up and took a few shots on my way into my gym...IN Levittown, NY, one of the most densely populated burbs in the country..
It was to busy dissecting a pigeon   
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The sounds that were being made while it was tearing the pigeon apart were slightly disturbing
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Oops apologize for the hi -jack
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Waiting for me to hop in the shower. I'm 6'4" 260# and within a plastic shower curtain Jaybird would fly circles around me while I showered. He loved it
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