[Petographer]

These guys were real cute. There would be 6 at a time staring you down for a piece of bread.

[Don Schaeffer]

Nice straightforward capture.

[Petographer]

Thanks Don but the credit goes to Toad. He took the shot.

[peter]

haha nice one ..

[shuttertalk]

These guys were real cute.

I hope you're talking about the birds! Just kidding...

[Toad]

These little guys were so hungry and aggressive. I was starving and exhausted and I had to fight off a half a dozen of them to eat the last bit of my sandwich. They were trying to tear it right out of my hand.

Bleeding nature!!

It was Colin's camera. I was changing film in mine. Bleeding film!!

[Polly]

These little guys were so hungry and aggressive. I was starving and exhausted and I had to fight off a half a dozen of them to eat the last bit of my sandwich. They were trying to tear it right out of my hand.

Bleeding nature!!

It was Colin's camera. I was changing film in mine. Bleeding film!!

It's a beautiful shot, very pleasing

The poor little birds must have been ravenous to behave that way! What sort of birds are they?


Polly

[Toad]

The birds are WhiskeyJacks (a relative of the Blue Jay) - and no - they are not particularly ravenous - they have just learned that people are always good for a handout, and are not predators - and so they have lost their instinctive fear.

That seems to be a character trait of this particular type of bird. I saw them behave exactly the same way at my friend's cabin in Newfoundland (4000 miles away) in August.

[Polly]

The birds are WhiskeyJacks (a relative of the Blue Jay) - and no - they are not particularly ravenous - they have just learned that people are always good for a handout, and are not predators - and so they have lost their instinctive fear.

That seems to be a character trait of this particular type of bird. I saw them behave exactly the same way at my friend's cabin in Newfoundland (4000 miles away) in August.

That's really interesting, thanks. I learned something new today as well as seeing your superb picci with a very appropriate title.

I sometimes hang around www.birdforum.net and I just did a search for more pix of the little fellas. None in the Europe/UK galleries and only 8 pix in the North America + Canada galleries - all from the same person. Apparently a cute, friendly little bird that likes to be fed

Here's the url to the gallery of pix (Gray Jay or Whiskey Jack + other nicknames) I hope it works for you - it may only be available to subscribed members, not sure.

Polly

[Rufus]

Amazing!!!!!!!!

[Petographer]

Amazing!!!!!!!!

Me or the bird?
It was pretty hard parting with my sandwich being as hungry as I was but it was worth having these lttle fella's around.