Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

2024-01-19 Thread Peter Saracino
Thanks guys! Pete On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 3:41 PM Regi Teasley wrote: > Maybe Rousseau had it all wrong. The first contract was between people > and animals….especially clever, social animals.  > > Regi > > Creativity is the heart of adaptive evolution. > Terry Tempest Williams > >

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

2024-01-19 Thread Regi Teasley
Maybe Rousseau had it all wrong.  The first contract was between people and animals….especially clever, social animals. RegiCreativity is the heart of adaptive evolution.Terry Tempest WilliamsOn Jan 19, 2024, at 10:28 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote:I know quite a few humans who do what

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

2024-01-19 Thread Geo Kloppel
I know quite a few humans who do what strikes me as much the same kind of thing: their dining tables and kitchen windowsills are decorated with trinkets and natural objects like polished stones, pine cones, crystals, snake skins, and dried flowers. On mine there are currently several bits of

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

2024-01-19 Thread Donna Lee Scott
Some people have observed this trinket -leaving near food source with Crows & wondered if it was a gesture of gratitude for the feeder food. Maybe just us anthropomorphizing? Donna Scott Kendal at Ithaca-377 Sent from my iPhone On Jan 19, 2024, at 6:58 AM, Peter Saracino wrote:  Hey folks. I

[cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

2024-01-19 Thread Peter Saracino
Hey folks. I hear some people tell of blue Jay's leaving pebbles and bits of twigs on feeder trays. Anyone else ever hear of such things? If so, what might be the reason? Thanks! Pete Saracino/NY State Master Naturalist Volunteer -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a