"Ka30P" wrote in message
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When my parents lived in Central Oregon they put out peanuts for the
squirrels
and the blue jays, who they nicknamed, The Blues Brothers. They fed them
on the
deck off the kitchen. If my parents decided to sleep in on a Sunday the
blue
jays would hang out under their bedroom window and set up a racket to wake
them
up to start the morning's peanut delivery.

In our case it's the Cardinals. They come up to the door and start cheaping
for their peanuts. If you don't respond quickly enough, the male breaks out
into one of his many songs. Even the sparrows have gotten into the act this
year, some days there must be 30 of them sitting in the tree waiting for
their handout. The Jays are few and far between (West Nile), but there is
one who occasionally screams for his peanuts.





kathy :-)
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