alonewiththemoon | (no subject)

There is a bluejay in my office with me. It was trapped in the chimney when I got here this morning. I managed to get the flue open and after a while it came out, poor little sooty thing. Unfortunately only one window on this floor of the office suite opens, and it's down the other end of the suite. So we have that window open, all the other window shades drawn and the lights in my office off, in the hopes that the bird will follow the light to the open window. He seems to prefer sitting on my bookshelves and yelling, though. I assume it is a fledgling leaving a nest which had been built at the top of the chimney, and hopped the wrong way out of the nest. At my parents' house, sparrows occasionally do this in their wood stove. Animal Control will eventually be here with a net to escort him out of the building if he doesn't manage it himself.

Gosh bluejays are loud when you are in a small enclosed space with one. Again, poor little thing.
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i just had one bounding about the rooftop outside my window.

Another one up this-a-way performs a rather decent impression of a hawk cry. A little bit thinner than the real thing, but it had me convinced til i made eye contact one day.

Bluejays are jackasses.

But I hope it safely gets out of your office.

I saw a gorgeous bluejay (presumably, it was big and bright blue) in Arlington yesterday.