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At Frenchman's Meadow, Stanford, this morning between about 7 and 7.30 I
happened to catch an all-out attack by a Scrub Jay on the new HOODED ORIOLE
nest. The female and especially the adult male oriole attacked the jay with
loud calling and pecking each time it entered the nest, apparently driving
it off a couple of times within a second or so of its entry. A second male
and eventually a second female oriole joined in the defense -- possibly
second summer offspring accompanying the adults? or would another adult
pair join in cooperative nest defense? The jay returned to the attack after
being driven away twice, and I saw it finally stay within the nest for
several seconds -- the oriole energies seemed to flag -- and then fly away
with one egg in its bill. Afterwards the two orioles flew back and forth
between the two neighboring fan palms in the meadow, and I saw fragments of
a second nest in the second (southerly) palm.

Tom Grey
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