At 11:17 PM 9/9/96 EDT, you wrote:
>

> I'm worried about feeding wild animals, but is there such a big
>difference between hand feeding Gray Jays and letting Chickadees eat out
>of your hand or your feeder?


To my mind, a feeder is a "hands-off" approach to bird feeding. Unless you
train them to trust you, birds will inherently not trust you - we are, after
all, predators.

Corvids are awfully smart so I think they tend to capitalize on situations
more than other species do.

What do you think, Dennis?

Peggi



Peggi Rodgers
Oregon Research Institute
Eugene, OR
peggir at ori.org
prodgers at efn.org
"A bird does not sing because it has an
answer, It sings because it has a song"