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| Mr. Wizard |
In mid May a young Blue Jay, just learning to get around,
had gotten to the ground and couldn't get into the tree again.
There are some cats around so I decided to help.
I dressed in my blue robe, a blue hat and blue rubber gloves.
The bird was not disturbed by my presence until I gently
cupped my hands around it.
Now I'm getting dive bombed by the mother and the baby is
raising total hell until I lifted it into the tree and released it.
It immediately calmed down and sat there looking at me
as I made my way back into the house.
Today it's quite a spirited male youth and has some sort of
imprint of me as, it comes around whenever I'm outside
and follows me around.
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| XXXXgizzieXXXX |
"Mr. Wizard" <spacedog@yahoo.com> wrote
> Today it's quite a spirited male youth and has some sort of
> imprint of me as, it comes around whenever I'm outside
> and follows me around.
When I was a little girl, my dad's business partner's wife was
magic with wild birds--she was the only person I ever knew who could
take a fallen-from-the-nest pinkie Robin and raise it 'till it could
fledge. She raised Sparrows, too, all successfully released to the
wild. One spring, a neighborhood kid brought her a baby Blue Jay,
barely pinned, it was all beak and eyeballs. She fed it for five
weeks, weaned it and tried to release it. It would not leave the
tree in her front yard, would not even try to fly, jsut st there and
screamed. Fearing it would be eaten, she brought it back into the
house. She attempted to realease it several more times, but it was,
indeed, imprinted to her. Her husband built the bird a large cage;
she kept the door open all the time and the bird would hop to the
floor and follow her around the house. They had him for ten years, he
never did attempt to fly. He was quite tame and a real character, but
the most surprising thing was he started to talk his second
spring--she was at the back door, calling her collie in from
outside,and the bird said "Here, King!! C'mon, now!", as clear as any
Mynah. He went on to learn about twenty "every-day" phrases and
sounds, but never would say anything they TRIED to teach him to say.
He was amazing.
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XXXXXXgizzieXXXXXX
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