[Mnbird] Live from Freeborn County

[Pamela Freeman]

I find the corvidae family fascinating.
Crows have this amazing rattle or chattering sound they do sometimes. I
have not quite figured out what they are communicating with it, but it
always catches my attention.
They are one of my favorite birds, perhaps not the most colorful of plume,
but of character, now, they have such vibrant personalities.
And their smaller more colorful cousin, the blue jay, he who mimics others.
Yesterday I heard a robin and looked to see what robin was cheeping so
emphatically out my window - it was a jay.
I have heard them mimic hawks, quite believably, but never have I heard one
mimic a robin.
The hawk mimic scatters other birds from the feeder, so I can see the
reason behind its use, but a robin?
But perhaps I do them discredit, assuming all behavior must have a
Maslow's  reason behind it.
Perhaps it was doing it out of the joy of being able to do so.




- Pamela
Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to
accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Unknown

“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.”
― Aldo Leopold
I am one who cannot.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:41 AM Al Batt via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>
wrote:

> 
>  The crows were particularly chatty this morning, doing a color commentary
> on the yard. They called "hawk" and they were correct. A Cooper's hawk was
> rousted from its perch. When it comes to knowing things a crow should know,
> crows are brilliant.
>
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