Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

"Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Based on my extensive bird-watching here over the years, the favorite
>food of the great tailed grackle is the fast food French fry.  They
>cruise the parking lots and tidy them up, starting with the fries.
>They're pretty bold about it, too, although they won't actually try to
>take the fries out of your hand the way the Steller's jays will in
>Yosemite.  My dad, who worked running horses in the Wasatch and was in
>the CCC, called jays "camp robbers" and it's a pretty accurate name.

I was on my deck watching the street once and saw a crow.  He was
digging through a discarded McD bag.  He ate a few missed french fries
directly, but his response to the unused ketchup packs was
interesting.  He'd take the pack to a nearby puddle, wash it without
puncturing it, then fly off somewhere with it.  He'd come back in a
couple of minutes and resume digging through the bag.

Wa****ng it?  If he's sta****ng food for the future, I guess spilled
ketchup on the outside of the pack would go bad?

-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27