birds are particularly strange when choosing who to feed. for example,
here's a video of a black-headed cardinal feeding koi:

https://youtu.be/qtWcb7TwClo

a video of a black swan feeding koi:

https://youtu.be/S9nk9_ms0z0

and a video of a canada goose (accidentally) feeding koi:

https://youtu.be/VNC91V_KDPk



On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 12:45 AM B Boekelheide <bboek at olympus.net> wrote:


> Hello, Dave, and Tweeters,

>

> Thanks for your warbler story. It reminds me of an occurrence at the

> Farallon Islands many years ago. In the colony below our murre blind both

> Common Murres and Brandt's Cormorants nested right next to each other, with

> the murres just out of pecking distance of the cormorants. One time we

> watched a murre egg roll away from an incubating murre right into a nearby

> Brandt's Cormorant nest. The cormorant pair then incubated the murre egg

> along with their own eggs all the way until it hatched. After hatching,

> the cormorants tried to feed the murre chick their usual way, by opening

> their bills and expecting the chick to retrieve food out of their mouths.

> Unfortunately the little murre chick never figured it out and eventually

> died.

>

> I suspect nature is full of mistakes like these, but we don't get a chance

> to witness them too often because they usually have bad endings.

>

> Bob Boekelheide

> Dungeness

>

>

> On Jul 7, 2020, at 10:31 AM, Dave Slager <dave.slager at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> Tweeters,

>

> This morning I saw a real oddity at Carkeek Park in Seattle: An adult

> Wilson's Warbler feeding a fledgling Black-throated Gray Warbler. At first

> I thought my eyes must be making a mistake, but I watched 7 feeding events,

> so it was the real deal. The youngster did not appear to be a hybrid.

>

> I can think of a few ways this might have come about, but they all sound

> pretty far-fetched. I've never seen anything like this before. Has anyone

> out there in Tweeterdom seen something like this, or heard about an

> instance?

>

> In case anyone is interested in looking for it, it was right by the Honey

> Bucket in the middle of Carkeek Park, just below the water treatment

> facility.

>

> Dave Slager

> Seattle, WA

>

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