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Old 02-07-2010, 10:37 AM   #11
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They work together and announce food sources...
and the dinner bell gets rung...

many times i have noticed when filling feeders
how the calls go out alerting others to the new cache.
~ when out in Cal....

one day i hiked way up into the mountains with a backpack
...my lunch and a quality twenty pound bag of bird seed
of a mixed variety
and carefully selected a spot... of smooth rocks and trees...
and not a single bird to be seen or heard anywhere.

the perfect conditions........

i carefully placed it in every crevice imaginable especially in trees
and then spread the rest out in the open in a circle then i ate my lunch
and took a short nap... and hour and a half passed and nothing was seen or heard.

Then one small Bird happened by...
and rather than just eat....it flew up higher in a tree and started calling
and that brought more birds and then more birds called....

soon there was more than fifty...of many different species
and they were having a ball and i listened as each type made there dinner bell call
bringing in more of the same.

I've been doing this type of experiments for my whole life.
what about the mushroom experiments
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