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Index of Subjects I forwarded this item to Margie Millard in Whites Point and this was her response. Andy Dean I can't see why this would be a surprise. I know my hummingbirds will contact me by way of the windows. They do it regularly. They are curious when I am down in the workshop painting and sometimes will sit and watch me for quite a period of time. What surprises me is that we think they can't have brains that would work well enough to understand how to communicate with us....I know it is a reach back for them, evolutionally (is that a word?) but I think it is great they try......Wonder if they have 'thoughts' that would rank us a challenged species. > Marg in N.S. Zone 6b > http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mmillard/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Hirtle" <jrhbirder@hotmail.com> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:31 PM Subject: [NatureNS] Birds tapping windows for food > This is an interesting article if anyone is interested in pursuing the > topic further. > > To quote Jim Ferguson from the Renfrew Mercury, Sept. 26th. > jamesh@nrtco.net > > "Who is that tapping? > Once birds have come to recognize you as a provider of food, you can > expect therm to hassle you a bit when the suply becomes low. One tactic is > to tap on windowpanes. A bird will tap over and over again on the glass > with its bill, to add emphasis to their plight they will sometimes flutter > their wings to get your attention. Window tapping is not like the window > striking birds do in the spring when they see their image in the glass and > attempt to drive the intruder from their territory. The tapping stops when > you feed the birds but the striking does not until the glass is covered in > some way or the eggs in the nest hatch and the need to get rid of the > intruder disappears. > > Chickadees and blue jays in particular (nuthatches, sparrows and finches > will also use this method to get attention) are very good at reminding us > that it is time to be fed or the supply has run oiut. They have been known > to follow their care givers around the house tapping only on the > windowpanes where their providers are working inside. > > Some species, cardinals for example, will bring empty sunflower seeds to a > windowsill and drop them, sometimes they will bring several, drop them and > then look in the window. Jays will bring empty peanut shells to a > windlowsill and pick them up and drop them many times until we respond by > putting out more peanuts." > > Interesting explanation, isn't it? > Jim is a retired teacher and writes an interesting column in the Mercury > every week...worth the price of the paper. > > Elizabeth > >
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