The Song of the Scrub-Jay

How To Do Everything

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🗓️ 19 June 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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How to defeat your winged enemies and prove how good you are at the bongos.

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0:00.0	Hey Mark, what can we help you with?
0:02.0	Well, about two weeks ago, a scrub jay moved into our neighbor's tree.
0:10.0	It's an extremely loud and unpleasant bird and it basically sits about 20 feet from our bedroom window and starting about 5 o'clock in the morning for about an hour, he just screams non-stop.
0:26.2	Wow, what does it sound like?
0:28.1	It's shrill.
0:29.3	It sounds sort of like a bird yelling.
0:33.0	Mm-hmm.
0:34.0	Could you try and do the sound so we can get a sense for it?
0:37.0	I could try and do the sound.
0:40.0	It makes me like,
0:41.0	eh?
0:42.0	Oh. Oh. It's like, kind of like that.
0:46.0	And it's just constant from 5 a.m. on.
0:49.5	Well, he, it might be a she.
0:52.0	This stops just long enough for you to let your guard down and
0:55.2	think that you might get back to sleep and that starts back up again.
0:58.3	Yeah and you know we're not really coping except for pillows over the head.
1:02.4	Sure. Is it a particularly... not really and you can't really see them the same anymore.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:14.0	I mean he's kind of pretty.
1:15.0	He's got a blue head and a blue tail and then a gray belly.
1:20.0	He's fine.
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