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Posted: Fri Apr 14th, 2023 18:24

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We bought one of those special feeders that have depressible perches. When heavy birds attempt to land the perch drops and their access to the food is blocked. Works fine for squirrels but the Jay developed a ‘fly at bang into it’ approach very early on…scattering peanuts to the ground for him to retrieve.

But now the ‘ground crew’ are sitting waiting to grab his spoils, he has refined and perfected his approach. He hovers to take the nut and only touches the perch lightly with one foot to push himself away. (Sequential frames) Notice the feeder has barely swung …relative to the tree markings behind.
I say ‘he’ but it could be a ‘her’…or these days even a ‘they’. :sssshh:

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