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The Birds
(Continued from Page 5) turned out in the fanners’ fields to hunt and peck, but now, when chickens are kept in coops and pens close to the house, the few kestrels who’d have dared to take on a bird twice their size look elsewhere for prey.
No Sense Of Smell
Another myth associated with birds is that mothers won’t feed their young if they’ve been touched by human hands. For years, moms have cautioned kids "Don’t pick up that baby bird and put it back in its nest. The parents won’t feed it if you do. They won’t go back to the nest if they can smell you.”
Nonsense, according to Jones. “Their sense of smell is almost nonexistent. And they can’t count either,” he added. Jones reported that he’d just placed seven orphans from the city in Rappahannock bird houses, one in the box on the Manwaring farm. “I just put the orphan in. It was a little older but the (parent) birds can’t tell the difference. They don’t know if they left four, five or six. They fed the orphan and it flew away a few days later," he said.
Inspecting the birds while Ted Manwaring held them for banding. Jones estimated their age at about three and a half weeks. Tiny bird hearts thumped so fast it was hard to distinguish one beat front another but otherwise, the fledglings didn’t seem too distressed.
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