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Article: The blue jay vs. the squirrels.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 24, 2008
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Byline: Richard O'Mara
The blue jay speaks with the jagged voice of an old street vendor. A songbird she's not. But busy she is, trying to drain the feeder of its sunflower seeds and fending away squirrels determined to do the same or else she is off gathering bugs for her furry, gray progeny.
I see this tiny creature a short distance off, new to the world, balancing on the handle of a one-horse plow, an artifact of another century, its rusted steel blade lodged in the earth for a dozen years now. The chick is as motionless as the plow, and illuminated by a shaft of light through the canopy of maples, pines, and sweet gum trees. This incandescence brings ...