Eurasian jay<\/a>. Apparently they are not so unusual, but this is the first one I’ve seen in our inner-city neighbourhood.<\/p>\n![\"Eichelh\u00e4her\"](\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/eichelhaeher_2-300x225.jpg\")
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An Eichelh\u00e4her visited our street yesterday. I’d never seen one before, and it took a while to identify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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We have a bird feeder on our balcony, which attracts a lot of lovely little birds – and a few pigeons, who are less lovely. I know they’re only trying to survive like the rest of us, but they make a mess, knock things over, squash plants, make nests and scare the little birds; so we do our best to discourage them. When I’m sitting at my desk working, I often notice them trying to sneakily fly past my window without being seen, so I leap up and shoo them away (it’s good exercise and micro-breaks from computer work).<\/p>\n