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blue jay - nut cracking

The nut cracking ability is fairly well developed. Interesting visitor near the end - I'll post that one later.

Cool Facts:
# Tool use has never been reported for wild Blue Jays, but captive Blue Jays used strips of newspaper to rake in food pellets from outside their cages.
# Blue Jays lower their crests when they are feeding peacefully with family and flock members or tending to nestlings.

Blue Jay - All About Birds

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Uploaded on Jul 6, 2009

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house wren - food drops

house wren dropping food (spiders) off for the hatchlings to eat. neat how you can hear the hatchlings beg for food once the wren gets into the box.

still experimenting with 500D video capabilities - manual focus isn't easy.

cool facts:
House Wrens nest inside tree holes and nest boxes. As the season progresses their nests can become infested with mites and other parasites that feed on the wren nestlings. Perhaps to fight this problem, wrens often add spider egg sacs into the materials they build their nests from. In lab studies, once the spiders hatched, they helped the wrens by devouring the nest parasites.

House Wren - All About Birds

A 1 minute version of the wren video, with 2 more wren food drops and a different angle, can be found on vimeo.

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Uploaded on Jul 3, 2009

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Feeding

Blue Jay feeding.

Still playing around with the new Canon 500D's video features. Manual focus isn't as easy as it sounds.

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Uploaded on Jun 30, 2009

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sunday morning

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Uploaded on Jun 30, 2009

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