Friday, September 2, 2011

Voyeurs

We were watching the two Stellars Jays this morning, who were watching us. We sat at our kitchen table looking out the window, and they sat out on the deck, on the backs of our lawn chairs, looking in at us. Every move we made they followed with extreme rapt attention. If we made a move towards the door, they flew to the tree branches awaiting our possible step outside to provide them with peanuts. We went back to the bedroom and there outside the bedroom window, on a ladder propped against the eaves were the two jays, sitting on two rungs, about a foot between them, one facing west and the other east, both looking in the window intently. They are so intense about it and so persistent that we finally give in and hand out some more goodies. A reward for their watchfulness. Don't know which of us is exhibiting learned behaviour.

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