While taking a walk in the small woodland near my apartment, I found that my sensitization to crow alarm calls this summer had carried over to one of their relatives: the blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata). I followed the jeering calls of several blue jays until I located the hawk at the center of the commotion.
The hawk that had agitated the blue jays.
With the mystery of what was upsetting the blue jays solved, I decided to record the blue jay's alarm calls. Thus, I fortuitously switched to video mode just in time to catch the startling climax of the confrontation between the blue jays and the hawk.
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After successfully chasing off the hawk, the blue jays quieted down and I continued on a more peaceful walk.
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