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gave me the clue to interpreting the bird’s behavior: “The grackle then turned his head, ‘peanut’ held fast in his beak, and began to stroke his back and wings with it ...When he next picked it up, he repeated this process several times.” The long and detailed letter concluded with her attempts to identify the white object. She went out hoping to scare the grackle away without his “peanut.” “Big as the ‘peanut’ was in size relative to his own,” she wrote, “the bird took off with it... in his beak! And now I will never know what it was!”
I was tempted to quote this interesting letter in its entirety, but space is limited. I have tried to give not only the clarity of Ms. Rhoadhouse’s observations but the graphic quality of her writing.
It was not plastic the bird held in its bill. The recent letter from Susanna Lockley will reveal what the grackle was using on its feathers. She wrote: “A friend of mine, who lives in Frederick, Md. shared a unique experience with me. ...She'had trouble with rabbits in her flower beds and read somewhere that mothballs would discourage them. When I asked her how it worked, she said the mothballs did discourage the rabbits, but the practice was getting expensive. Each
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