Wednesday, January 15, 2014

How to train a scrub jay

Justin has discovered a new passion: bird watching. He has spent hours studying, drawing, and observing birds in our yard. His current goal is to train a scrub jay to take a peanut out of his hand. I am not sure if he will succeed, but it sure is fun watching him try!
Here he is being very still and inconspicuous so as to make the jay comfortable with his presence. It reminds me of the chapter in Winnie the Pooh where Pooh disguises himself as a little black rain cloud so as not to make the bees suspicious. Just to clarify, Justin is wearing his winter coat not because it was cold out but because he thought it would make him look like a blue jay!

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