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Post by rowanberry on Aug 14, 2016 19:32:21 GMT
The young jays are amusing- they've recently learned how to land on the bird table, (they kept trying to perch on the squirrel baffle, which tips about) and now they squabble over whose turn it is. One sits on top, leaning over and squawking at its sibling- usually making such a nuisance out of itself that the other one drops its nut and then there's an argument over that, too. Any monkey nuts that are a strange shape and might be difficult to open get chucked off the table, and I have to go down and put them back, (the parents aren't so fussy.) These two are some of the noisiest we've had over the years that the jays have been coming...sometimes they just sit up in the trees proclaiming their presence to the world. At six o'clock a.m. they're not making themselves popular with the neighbours! Sibling Jays Aug 2016 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 18, 2016 11:32:28 GMT
I don't know about "not popular with the neighbours" Mine are driving me up the pole, and it is not just early morning. My gang have six fledglings, even seen them trying to beg food off the blackbirds and the woodies. Think they are going to grow up just as bossy as their parents.
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Post by rowanberry on Aug 18, 2016 21:31:27 GMT
Good heavens... I hate to think of the noise that six of them could make! My two have taken to sitting on the table and staring pitifully at the house to let me know when they want more peanuts. Two Jays by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 19, 2016 9:37:08 GMT
LOL! Cheeky. I have three fledgling blackbirds that sit on the wall willing me to give them more mealworms and every time I go out the house they appear near me. by the way it is not just the six yakking, the parents join in too, they don't want anything disturbing their young they shout at the woodies, the woodpigeons and the blackbirds, even seen them shooing off the chaffinch.
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