Thursday, May 15, 2014

New (to Crumby) Blue Jay Behavior

The eaves of the CB feature a great many paper wasp nests.  Mostly they are nests of Polistes furcatus, sometimes attaining a fairly large size.  Lately a blue jay flies under the eaves, tears off chunk of  wasp nest, alights on a nearby tree branch, and dissects the chunk.  I have not seen any wasps, so the nest we are now discussing may be abandoned, but still could have some larval wasps maybe.

And we have a new baby deer in residence.  How annoying is that?  The doe acts like she owns the place, even appropriating the bird feeder as her own.  Most likely she descends from that buck who learned to empty the bird feeders by banging it with his head and sending the feeder flying horizontal, thus emptying the sunflower seeds.  Mercy!

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