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From: hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler)
Subject: Re: Do birds know who feeds them?
Message-ID: <1991May30.001825.15541@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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References: <25107@well.sf.ca.us> <1991May29.204808.7956@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 00:18:25 GMT

In article <1991May29.204808.7956@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> rdmiller@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Ruth D Miller) writes:
>In article <25107@well.sf.ca.us> lp@well.sf.ca.us (Lily Pond) writes:
>>My question is, do they understand that I'm putting the food there for them?
>>When I forget to fill it, and they come over and see me through the kitchen
>>window, do they know it's me in there, who hasn't put the food in the feeder
>>(which is large and they can stand on)?
>>
>It certainly seems reasonable to me that birds recognize who feeds them.
>Ruth
>
>

I would agree that they recognize you.  I had a blue jay near my last
house that would come by daily after the evening news for some peanuts.
At other times, if I went outside it would see me and come to a nearby
tree (10 feet or even less) and scream and otherwise beg for food.  It
would also sit in the shrubs near the picture window and "beg" when it
saw me sitting inside.


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