[TN-Bird] back to birds!

From: jreese5@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:41:53 -0600




Thanks everyone for your kind remarks...my head is getting big and puffy so
stop it....

Back to birds, please! I had communicated with some people off-line about
teaching birds, especially mockingbirds to come when called. I trained the
mockingbirds at work very quickly (it was like they had been waiting for me
to do this, it was so instantaneous). I got out of the car with a large
sweet Oriental persimmon in my hand (my family grows them down in
Mississippi), and made a lot of big "pishing" sounds and even called
"mocker, mocker, mocker". They came over to the big Foster hollies by the
parking lot immediately and watched me as I put the fruit down and walked
on in the door. Maybe 5, maybe 10 seconds passed and they landed by the
persimmon and took a peck, then dug in. Now I am putting the persimmons on
the brick outside sill of my window and if I feel like favoring somone else
at the building, I will put one on theirs. The birds don't wait for my
"pishing" anymore, but fly up to the nearest tree when I drive into the
parking lot. (They know my car, in other words.)

This got me interested in "hand-taming" and I found an article online that
featured a Bob Fulcher with the Tennessee state parks who used a "cheating"
method...using a clothed dummy as a feeder, and then substituting himself
for the dummy. Is he, by chance, a member of this bird-line? If not, does
anyone know him? I would like to interview him for an article.

Carol Reese
Ornamental Horticulture Specialist -Western District
University of Tennessee Extension Service
605 Airways Blvd.
Jackson TN 38301
731 425 4721 email  jreese5@xxxxxxx

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