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Thanks for the link.
I live... well, actually I live just off of the new 164, but where I'm at it's pretty wooded and there're horse farms just over the hill from me, so there's a fair amount of wildlife, especially birds, right out in my front yard. I put a feeder out with mixed seed to see what would turn up.
I've learned alot about bird territories. I seem to be right in the middle of the territory for a mated pair of cardinals, for instance. I was amused to watch the cardinals learn to use the bird feeder; they're smarter than you'd think. I didn't realize that the feeder I'd gotten was really too small for some of the birds we've got (like the cardinals). They would fly up to it and then veer off at the last second... until the female discovered she could land sideways and reach the seed at the other end of the tray.
Sunday I was out with my camera stalking the wooded line looking for good photos. I snapped one of the male cardinal, who obviously heard the click of the shutter. He was looking around frantically and then looked down at me, bobbed his head and then _posed_ while I took another couple pictures. It wasn't just a "noise - fear - don't move" response (or didn't seem to be anyway). He sat up tall and looked off to his left, all regal. After about a minute he looked down at me, sang something and then flew off toward the pine tree by my porch where they like to sit.
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