If the location was in the sun, I would suspect the jay was engaged in sunning behavior which many species engage in.
SeEtta Moss On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Hugh and Urling Kingery <[email protected]>wrote: > Roy Hohn posed what he calls "A strange behavior question." Do any > Cobirders have theories about this kind of behavior? > > Hugh Kingery > > "On August 21 I watched a blue jay land on the mulch in our back yard. > It spread its tail and wings, like it was making a tent, and ducked its head > beneath the wings. It stayed motionless for about 30 seconds and then flew > away. A few minutes later I watched a repeat of the same behavior. We saw > a similar behavior at Lake Manyara in Tanzania, with an ibis (I think it was > an ibis.) But the ibis was in shallow water and using the behavior as a > strategy to catch fish and small critters in the water. What was the blue > jay doing? I walked back and examined the area later, but saw nothing > unusual - like a colony of ants or some other insects it could eat." > > Roy Hohn [email protected] > suburban Centennial, near Arapahoe and Colorado Blvd. > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
