V/a.3 sitting down on the railroad track when 
^ heard a queer bird note from a hedgerow beyond 
iuliners. It was repeated twice and I was just 
oing over there to see what it was when a blue jay 
ew over there from Palke’s marsh and lighting on 
as ]" e ^ ® aVe bbe same note so the nystery was solved, 
not think that any other bird around here 
c uid have given it so that the jay would mock it. 
v/as a grunting note repeated half a dozen times 
reminded me slightly of a woodchuck. 
thi C f° SS A he railroad bridge was a pair of blue jays 
WtoH W f e ? f0 5 sometim0 » They were very shy and 
oco 7 al0ng brush 3 r fences and through thornapples 
asionally finding something to eat and holding 
* under one foot while they picked it to pieces. 
th e , A from their actions that they were mated as 
^ always kept together. 
Another one was pestering an English sparrowthat 
^ s ' :ra y ed out there. It would fly tuider the 
shcAA'A*' missin ^ and the sparrow chase it a 
' t distance but was not able to follow it far 
aus 0 it twisted so. The jay kept it crest raised 
th ® V8ry picture mischief. It came back 
Out a ^' aln and varied this by swooping suddenly 
at the sparrow with setting wings, like a hawk 
fcnorAA”? the sma11 into an attempt at hiding 
°h& the branche s. 
we £! mtin « ^ chaS0d the females in¬ 
tis s^; y * **** went ln hunches of six or eight and 
auri aE c 10 f en a lo lit the males began to call 
Cl0S9 t0 ttem t0 be driven away with open 
fli ?* Then the females would take refuge in 
j * ®« ai n» closely pursued by the screaming males. 
Sian W&S wabcb in€ the pair of bluejays through the 
v f a red ”tailed hawk suddenly sailed in the field 
U ision. The jays were forgotten and I followed 
O.S if A vn 
rose i n circles. It was above the 
SU f.. near Cut. Suddenly when it had reached 
° f about i" our hundred feet it lifted its 
th Q eS strai S ht and dropped straight as a stone into 
*8 i ' voods below without even checking its great speed 
b neared the ground. It must have seen something 
