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From: lp@well.sf.ca.us (Lily Pond)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Do birds know who feeds them?
Keywords: birdfood
Message-ID: <25180@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 2 Jun 91 04:07:49 GMT
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Several people have thusfar been kind enough to reply to this query, but the
only birds anyone has referred to have been at least the size of a blue jay.
Well, my blue jays here know me, which I like, and I would love the
opportunity sometime to become familiar to a Canadian Goose or two, but what
I still find myself wondering is: what about the smaller ones: the finches
and sparrows, even the mourning doves and towhees (all of whom are regular
visitors to my feeder here in Berkeley, California)?  The less tame-able
ones . . . do they get to know individual humans, do you think?  Do they
know who feeds them?