Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:01:47 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bob Mumford Subject: Bluejay behavior MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have noticed that Bluejays consume sunflower seeds at my window feeder in two ways. 1. When they think they have time, they pick up individual seeds, hold them with their toes and beat the daylights out of the shell until they can get at the goodies. 2. When they think they are rushed, they just come in and quickly gulp down seed after seed with shells on and then fly off. Does anyone know whether they later regurgitate the shelled seeds and take them apart, or do these just pass through their system and digest as is? Bob Mumford Darnestown ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================