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Re: [SBB] Juvenile Scrub Jay



Kendric  For those who have never seen these bickering guys I thought I 
could add to your point by showing this 2 minute interchange I caught up in 
lake county in 2 photos between a juvenile and its older relative.who 
reverse their postions in the 2 photos   Tom Merigan
http://www.pbase.com/merigan/image/45071016
http://www.pbase.com/merigan/image/45071147

At 10:04 AM 8/29/2006, Kendric C. Smith wrote:
>I know that birders are not supposed to get upset over the actions of
>birds, and I was shocked years ago when our bird teacher made a
>startling confession.  He couldn't stand the Cal Towhee chip note
>repeated ad nauseam early in the morning, waking him up.
>
>Well, now we have one.  Our juvenile Scrub Jay.  It begs all day
>long, and has been for days and days, even when it is standing knee
>deep in bird seed.  I am sure that it is just as much a nuisance to
>its parents.  I think that the juvenile should be spanked and sent to
>his/her room, unfortunately its room is our yard.
>
>Well, one of these days it will grow up, and learn to harass all the
>other birds at the feeders, as its parents do.  It is still a pretty
>bird.
>--
>Kendric C. Smith, Ph.D.
>927 Mears Court
>Stanford, CA  94305-1041
>(650) 493-7210
>[[email protected]]
>http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/
>
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