Hello,
Yes i think that the Stellers Jays are one of the smartes birds next to the
Crows.For instance when you feeding birds in you yard and also have
Stellers Jays around,incase there is a predator around the Stellers Jays
alerting all the birds that there is danger around. And soon all the birds
leaving the feeders looking for cover.You having 2 to three Jays making all
the commotion it is quite show. I beeing observing this behavier several
times here in my yard.Speaking of unsalted Peanuts ( i used to buy them
from Nellys as rejects)for 50 pounds $10.00 and i been grinding them up to
put in my Suet also my Townsend's Warbler loves them so the Varied
Thrushes,for them we leave them whole. This year we had the lowest count on
Varied Thrushes since i feed birds in 1986 ( thre Varied Thrushes )The most
counted is 28 one year.Yes i attract many birds here in Fircrest and i live
close to the Fircrest swamp,where we had a Barred Owl one year and where
the Green Herron nesting, landing in trees around my yard.I am looking all
morning for the male Rufous Hummingbird to come.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
godwit at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Lynn & Carol Schulz <linusq at worldnet.att.net>
> To: Tweets <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Steller's Jay Gift
> Date: Friday, February 25, 2000 11:03 AM
>
> 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.