Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:41:20 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Beal Subject: Blue Jay vs Squirrel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It seems squirrels are smarter than Blue Jays (and this was a small squirrel, juvenile?). The squirrel would sit on my fence in the backyard and watch the jay bury acorns under a tree nearby or right up against the fence. Even before the jay was out of sight, the squirrel would run down and dig up the acorn. This has been going on most of the morning. Tom Beal Glenn Dale, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================