The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1905-02-09
Sat For Their Pictures.

ole does not have TO wsndcr far ,i,eld 10
meet Interesting rpetkncg,, for they are
everywhere. Those who think they mu,t
90 to The fsroO Islands or Tho marshes of
Florida to study birds may profl hy tho
experience OF Mr.. Frank NJ, Chapman, tho
suthoiity on tltds 81 The American Museum
OF Natufhl History, Who inds The most H..
ters siiag gtmptos OF siaged lie At bis
very door. Mr., Chspman tell. In The New
foik San Of hi. social rper iment, with a
family Of blue lays tear ~, home In Euglc-
wood.
male sn observation ho wcr, desisn,d 10
fepretent the truLk Of a tree, but II locked
so unlike any such tlieg that lnee no
self're'peotipg bind would tc deceived, 81
covered u With vlle,. set Il up car a
little lise-tree Ia which was blue AYE
neat, and enteonctd my self and my camera
inside, hoping to get some picture. Of blue
sy home life.
The old birds KEEP. away, though | walt.
ed an hour and thlee.quartprs. Ia the nest
were five little blue Jays which, Up to that
tine, bad probably bf,u fed Every live min
u,es, aud yelled for food between times,
Now, ihoush they must have been perish.
ing With hunger, not peep csme out of
them. How did they know enough TO obey
ind 6oltely the order for silence which Tie
parents, unheard by me, must have given
them before they dew to the wooi.s The
old birds evidently distrusted the vino clad
ol iect that had grown up with such alarm.
ing ssl'tness.
Not Wishing to staryc the little bIrds,
made an experiment ! took stuffed blue
Jay, discarded museum specimen, and
wired II on pole set close to the nest, In
stsntly there was 'swoop OF wings the
mother IVES back, the babies fquaked, re-
freshments began and confidence WAS rc.
stored. Blue Jay life was 10 ful swing, and
got several fne pictures.
took another museum dummy, eject.
cd, molting little screech-owl, and wired II
TO brareh. Now there Ia no love lost be-
tween the scIcech-owl and the blueisy; In
fact, there 10 4 feud between their houses,
and a hullabaloo ensusd In tho blue jsy
family. The old birds screamed and nut-
tered them make this statement with
great care--they fell into that converse
tional note which they only employ when
talking together. " WAS evident they were
planning their campaign.
Then something happened. The mother
bird jumped on that fcreech-owl like =
lightning fash Of blue jay. The screech.
owl turned slowly over and hung head
downward, his feet still attached to the
bough. The result was confounding, and
never heard such language from any bird
as was used by those two blue Jays to that
poor old dummy.
Ten days later ] again visited the nest.
The babies had all their clothes on now, and
had gained sense enough to be afraid. The
five little things all promptly scrambled out
OF the nest ard III Oh ,1 gr's', and had
to hunt them aii ~ NJ u set them 10 a row
for their ricturr. 00c eau Imagine tho
difficulties involved In inducing Ave little
blue Jays to sit for slCup photograph and
"look pleasant"
II really seemed a. II those birds knew
what said, for 40 clicked the camera
asked, Aren't you all very hungry" And
they answered the question so tilectually
that when the picture was developed II
showed five yawning cavities, five open
mouths behind which the five little bodies
Of the live little blue Jays were totally con-
ccaled from view,