Bird Notes, Part 3, v660
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at times actually trying to think it out. 2:58 Attention momentarily attracted from mirror to something in line with me and stares fixedly at it without moving until: 2:59½ I look behind me and see nothing unusual. 3:10 Delivery truck stops 50 feet from me and man comes to me, but Rhody continues his pecking at the mirror. 3:13 Man and truck go. R stays, still busy. 3:15 I move up to about 3 feet from mirror, R does not change tac- tics. 3:20 I return to original location. 3:27 R takes 1 minute rest. 3:28 Goes to far end of cage outside. 3:29 Goes 30 feet to south to gaze down into the driveway and the street and rest in shade (out of the wind). 3:35 I thought this was the wind-up, but Rhody seems to have a time- sense and was back again at the mirror at exactly a 3 hour lapse of time since his arrival there. 3:35½ I took mirror away, as I had had enough. 3:36 Rhody came out of cage and dusted. 3:37 Goes back and wonders where mirror has gone. He comes over toward me (for a drink?) but sees mirror face up on the ground at my feet and looks at himself without pecking. This had not been intended as a test. 3:38 Another truck comes and Rhody wanders off unhurriedly toward the glade, gets a drink there at 3:40 and goes down in where B is singing sub-song. B comes to me for worms, unperturbed, but R was not seen. Nov. 6th. The usual early morning song. Brownie, in the old oak, Nova accounted for in the glade, began full song again about 9 o'clock. This started the high-pitched song off to the east, so the author was neither B nor N. Soon still another song was heard a long way off to the south west. A little later, B and N absent at the time, the high pitched song and one like B's were heard at the same time off to the east. Investigation disclosed B and N off there together in a pine tree and