RE: blue jay bathing lesson

Yes!  It is true.  Usually they get most of their calcium from green plants
(at least geese do.)  They will eat the bits of egg shell and recycle them.
And the dog fur is also very welcomed in nests.  No doubt your bird families
will very pleased!

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5) 

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Karen Fernsler
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:50 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue jay bathing lesson

Cool!

I brushed the dogs, and dispersed the clumps about the yard in tow of Ariana
"The Canine-Avian Diplomat".

Somewhere once I read that if you put out chicken egg shell nesting birds
will consume the shell bits to replenish calcium reserves to help with the
production of more eggs.  Has anyone else ever heard that?

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:53:08AM -0400, Bonnie & Bill Morgan wrote:
> Sorry that happened to your dove family, and your tree, but mighty 
> happy you and your neighbors are O.K.!
> 
> I love watching bird families.  We usually have robin, finch, dove and 
> cardinal families.  This year a new robin couple is trying to build a 
> nest in one of the white pines in the back yard.  I noticed it while 
> at the kitchen sink.  I saw something moving amongst the needles, but 
> the color seemed odd.  Bill came to take a look and he thought the 
> same thing.  The next day when there was no movement in the tree, I went
to take a peek.
> She's definitely a new mother.  It didn't have the look or feel of an 
> established nest maker, and the odd color was her trying to weave in 
> some toilet paper she'd found! LOL!!!  Well, there will be clean up 
> after the youngsters!  It is also pretty low in the pine, so I worry 
> the neighbor's cats (often loose and on the prowl) might be a problem.  
> It looked like she was still working on nesting materials as I kept 
> seeing her make trips with odd scraps in her beak.
> 
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf Of Karen Fernsler
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:34 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue jay bathing lesson
> 
> Thanks for sharing that.
> 
> I needed that.  
> 
> I'd been watching Doves since March nesting in a hanging basket 
> outside the porch.  One of the eggs hatched and for about three days 
> we could see the chick being fed and happily raised and all, but after 
> some swirly/twirly thing went through our yard last week, the poor little
thing was gone.
> 
> It took this tree with it as well:
> 
> http://lurch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/apr_2006/
> 
> The swirly/twirly went on to rip off the sheet metal of a structure 
> 1/4 a mile up the road, and then flatten a huge stand of trees.  This 
> was at 1:30am, but luckily, no people were hurt!
> 
> The Dove parents are still around... I hope they try again!
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:40:19PM -0500, Pam Evans wrote:
> > Saw something pretty cool while out watering.   A mama blue jay hopped
in
> > her favorite birdbath and one of her fledglings hopped in next to 
> > her (monkey see, monkey do).  Well the little one just stood there, 
> > and the mama splashed water on him.  He kinda shook it off and stood 
> > there.  She splashed him again and I swear it was like you could see 
> > the
> little light
> > bulb above his head go on!  Ohhhh, a bath, cool!   So then both of them
> took
> > their baths and flew up to a low limb to shake and preen.
> > Anyway, it was pretty neat and I knew the bird lovers would like to 
> > hear about it.
> > 
> > --
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp TX
> > zone 8A
> > 
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