Hi Tweets:
I enjoy reading Dan Lindsay's messages to Tweeters. He is the one who lives
on the Eastside in a wooded neighborhood and had a Steller's Jay hop into
his kitchen and eat the family pet's food out of a dish on the floor.
My sister and her husband have a condo over near the Mercer Slough in
Bellevue. There are some woods in back of the condo. The couple lives in
TriCities and only comes over here to the condo about once a month. They
stay for a few days only.
When they arrive here, my sister's husband (I'll call him "Bob") lines up
some shelled, unsalted peanuts on the window sill. The Steller's Jays
immediately come in and eat. Bob keeps the peanuts out there as long as
they're here. When they are ready to return to TriCities, he places two
piles of peanuts out there. That is the signal that they are leaving town.
Last weekend, my sisters and I went on a birding trip and Bob showed us
something. It was a dried Oregon Grape leave and a neatly clipped and still
colorful primrose. It had been left on the windowsill by the Jays. Bob
took them inside and the bird stood there bobbing it's head as if to say,
"Thanks".
Carol Schulz
DesMoines

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Lindsay <susandan2 at earthlink.net>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 4:41 PM
Subject: Okanagan & Priest Rapids trip


>Hi Tweeters!
>
>I spent the last two days east of the mountains, with pretty outstanding
>results.