[Tweeters] Feeder demands and behavior

[kiroboto at gmail.com]

A certain Scrub Jay bangs on my patio door when he wants food.
It is so loud I hear it from the other room.
I admit I give him a piece of walnut because if I don’t, he tears holes in the screen door.


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> Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 11:11:17 -0700

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> Since the band tailed pigeons were mobbing my feeders the past several

> weeks and then depositing their droppings on my cars as they flew out, I

> decided to take the feeders down. Also using my feeders were a number of

> smaller birds: black capped chickadee, rufous sided towhee, evening

> grosbeak, juncos, etc.    On many occasions when the feeders were emptied

> by the pigeons, one or two would fly from the feeder and hang on the window

> frame of the house to let me know they were displeased and to get me to

> come out and rectify the egregious oversight.

>     The feeders are down. And today the little guys are coming around and

> sitting on the pole looking forlorn. And then a plucky junco flies over to

> the window and hangs on to the sill, fluttering and looking in. He did this

> for about 20 seconds, and then did it again. It is now hanging out on the

> feeder pole......waiting.

>      Their pleas have been heard.  I will fill the feeders again.

>       And amazing how the little guys learned from their bigger feeder

> friends.  And how intelligent birds really are.

>     Does anyone else see this behavior?


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