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[oakenguy]

Continuing the 'weekend of carnivores' theme: during the Sunday morning dogwalk I saw a bluejay swoop down on a mouse and attack it! I immediately ran over doing the 'Hey! Hey!' bugle that's the international call of folks trying to get between hunter and prey. (Its normally heard at all-you-can-eat buffets when there's only one slice of pie left.) Anyhow, in the flurry that followed I have no idea whether the jay managed to fly off with it or it managed to get away. Poor thing.

A bluejay! I guess I've just been ignorant: I associate them with eating their own weight in sunflower seeds and hogging the feeder, not with being predators.

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Re: blue jays are bastards!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Create 57 improv scenes!

Re: blue jays are bastards!

[empheliath.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear gods....

[aquagirl.livejournal.com]

Maybe that attack was more personal than gastronomic. Maybe the mouse had just called him a dirty word, or made a comment about how Toronto's baseball team sucks (get it? 'cause they're the blue jays!).

[spatch]

Yeah, that was my first guess, too -- that mouse was probably talkin smack about that bluejay.

[aquagirl.livejournal.com]

Those city mice are rude, yo.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

I've actually been noticing a lot of smaller birds attacking larger birds in the sky while driving back and forth...swallows taking on crows and the like.

And I think the swallows are winning!

[tersa.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Although, even more amusing by the fact that I originally read this sentence:

I saw a bluejay swoop down on a mouse and attack it!

as:

I saw a bluejay swoop down on a MOOSE and attack it!

[karyiann.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Now THAT would definitely be something! I still find it funny either way.

[wanderingrogue.livejournal.com]

Bluejays are bastards. They'll attack humans if the mood strikes them.

Nobody like the territorial bird, huh?

[phobean.livejournal.com]

Bluejays can be vicious, and they make TONS of noise when nesting. However, that mouse may not have been as innnocent as it first seemed...