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Santa Rosa CHP officer spares bird from becoming roadkill, takes selfie
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 6, 2015 | Evan Sernoffsky

Posted on 09/06/2015 1:58:43 PM PDT by artichokegrower

A California Highway Patrol officer in Santa Rosa saved a small bird from becoming roadkill and then snapped a selfie with the feathered creature, officials posted on Facebook.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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To: artichokegrower

Those who have learned the value of a life. Any life, in form or gestating.


21 posted on 09/06/2015 3:02:22 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: artichokegrower
Great looking bird...









FREEPATHON
by the numbers
moving the last piece

22 posted on 09/06/2015 3:14:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: ifinnegan

That’s the song!!
If guess it couldn’t be an instrumental, not with that Mantra.
Please don’t you be very long,
For I may be asleep..


23 posted on 09/06/2015 3:15:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

That is a good story. I can see it play out in my mind. Totally believable! Birds are capable of both gratitude and revenge.


24 posted on 09/06/2015 3:19:30 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Yeah.

And flying did have some humming/la la la-ing, but it was essentially instrumental. No lyrics.


25 posted on 09/06/2015 3:31:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Seaplaner

I always referred to blue jays as crows dressed up for Sunday.They both are criminals of the bird world.


26 posted on 09/06/2015 3:31:56 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (I love my dog, but a .45 is man's best friend...)
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To: artichokegrower; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; KC_Lion; PROCON
Contrast with....

"We had a deal!"

27 posted on 09/06/2015 3:47:12 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Yep...Jays used to fly into my kitchen for a bite to eat!

I like those guys.


28 posted on 09/06/2015 3:50:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

When I’m in the yard (surrounded by woods, coyotes, and bears) and I hear the Jays, I know to look around to see what has concerned them.

I love having them as sentries.


29 posted on 09/06/2015 3:53:05 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Seaplaner

Yep, Jays and Crows are a smart as a whip. Crows are crazy smart birds. I’m not familiar with Magpies.


30 posted on 09/06/2015 3:55:38 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Jays are super smart, yes. Very very smart. Several of them lived in one of our oak trees and they would let Dad feed them walnuts and cheese, right from his fingertips. But, one jay was waiting for Dad’s cat to go to sleep on the warm concrete... and then the jay would sneak up on the cat and squawk or even peck kitty’s behind....to wake her up.

Kitty was very upset, especially as this playful behavior continued day after day after sunny day....

until one fine afternoon, Kitty only feigned sleep. Jay snuck up to have his fun... and Lo and Behold! Kitty executed an AMAZING VTOL leap straight up (from a fully prone position flat on the concrete)... about 4 feet into the air, then did a very quick 180 degree rotation and... landed right on top of the startled jay. End of bird. (Kitty didn’t need us to feed her lunch that day, either.)


31 posted on 09/06/2015 3:57:51 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (up)
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To: trisham

Those guys would come up and knock on my window with their beaks. “Hey buddy, ya got one of those peanuts”? He’d go hide it and come back for more and his buddies would quickly zoom in on where the other one stashed it and dig it out.

Great stuff.


32 posted on 09/06/2015 3:59:14 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

They’re intelligent birds. We have many oak trees on our property, and abut a large forested area.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/blue_jay/lifehistory


33 posted on 09/06/2015 4:08:10 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dragnet2

I found a baby (Scrub Jay) one wandering outside my house one night. I captured him (?) and penned him in a pet carrier one night. I finally let him go that night to his fate outside again, because he was injuring himself bloody trying to escape. Was going to call in to work and take him to wildlife rehab in the am.

Hope the little guy made it.


34 posted on 09/06/2015 7:29:16 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Seaplaner
and magpies are the smartest of all birds

I beg to differ. Up here magpies compete with Ravens for roadkill. In over 50 years of driving, I have seen only a couple ravens killed on the road. I saw a flock of magpies ahead on the highway, eating a roadkill.

I did not slow down, as I assumed they were as smart as ravens, and would fly. They did, but it was too late. I hit five or six of them, It made a stunning black and white snowstorm behind us. Since then, i will brake for them, but I will not swerve. I am not going to kill myself or others to save a bunch of stupid birds.

35 posted on 09/06/2015 10:42:35 PM PDT by snowtigger (It ain't what you shoot, it's what you hit.)
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To: artichokegrower
Birds mourn


36 posted on 09/06/2015 10:50:19 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: snowtigger
I would agree that a (highly intelligent) crow is more wary than a magpie.

That said, googling "smartest bird" yields several results, with magpie, crow, and African grey typically vying for the top thinker.

So, I guess whatever you say, someone will agree!

.

37 posted on 09/07/2015 8:36:44 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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