[Birdtalk] Backyard Activity

[Jeff Bilsky]

Working from home today and two scrub jays showed up outside my window -
again. They were searching the area where at times I have peanuts. Much to
the dismay of my neighbors who feel living in the mountain west should
entitle them to no neighborhood wildlife, I went outside and began feeding
peanuts to my old friends. I have just about got one of them trained to
taking the peanuts out of my hand. He was bold enough to take one from about
6 inches past my hand. Question for wise birdtalk discussion: is there any
harm in your opinion in my training of the jays? I sort of think the Jays
have trained me so what harm could there be? Are the Jays smart enough to
discern from one human to the next? In other words, do they know I am
friendly and my neighbors would likely shoot them with a BB gun? Or are they
going to come to expect this sort of treatment from all humans?

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Jeff Bilsky
Salt Lake City
jbilsky at gmail.com
Bilsky.Blogspot.com
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