Filed under: Birds Seen, MamaPost, What's that bird?, birdwatching | Tags: birds, identification, reasoning
LittleBirder and I were looking at chickadees and a titmouse on the feeder.
Me (indicating the titmouse): And do you know what that one is?
LittleBirder, after thinking: Is it a baby blue jay?
A bit later, he wanted a blue jay to come inside and keep him company (we hadn’t seen a blue jay today).
LittleBirder decided that the blue jay was today’s bird, and talked about seeing them outside.
I wish I’d written down right away what he was saying. It’s clear to me that Blue Jay should be be #2, really, though I know he knows cardinal by sight…at least in photos. It’s rather sweet: we have a video of him from last Christmas, in which he and his Uncle are putting together a puzzle of a cardinal. LittleBirder is saying “Boozhay?” repeatedly, which Uncle S interpreted as “building” (as in building a puzzle). I was taking the movie, so I didn’t say anything, but I thought he was asking whether the cardinal was a blue jay.
