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Article: Chipping away at houses, jays wake curiosity
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1994
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Staffing the Massachusetts Audubon Society's natural history help
line, Linda Cocca gets peppered with the same questions each spring.
How can I keep sharp-shinned hawks from killing birds in my back
yard? Why are no chickadees visiting my new feeder? How do I keep
squirrels out of my chimney?
This season, however, the six-year help-line veteran is getting a
question she has never heard before: Why are blue jays eating the
paint off my house?
Cocca -- and several ornithologists -- don't know. They think
that the hard winter may be to blame, but they can't be sure.
"It's something that's totally alien to those of us who have been
in the business for a while," said Massachusetts Audubon ...