The home entertainment continues in the backyard plum tree, with more feeding visits from a ruby-crowned kinglet, and the addition of a FOY white-throated sparrow. The y-b sapsuckers seem to have moved on from the pine in the front yard. So far, there has been no repeat performance of last weekend's blue jay show, when 4 of our presumably resident jays did a most interesting tete-a-tete with a fifth jay. After consulting the Sibley behavior book, the conclusion was that all the insistent "talk," and body-bobbing may have been aimed at deflecting an interloper's presence away from a claimed territory full of goodies ( though maybe the folks were kicking a reluctant kid out of the house into adulthood). In the end, all five jays were doing the song and dance in unison, facing the same direction. If only human beings could settle their differences that way....
Now I'm hoping for a visit from a GC kinglet willing to give the same show of colors enjoyed on walks Monday and yesterday. Two different golden-crowned kinglets displayed their crowns so fully that they actually flashed outer edges of flame orange---so much so, that I at first mistook them for ruby-crowns. Linda Whyte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080416/adb9a7fa/attachment.html
