Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 08, 2019

Ha! First one here! I stayed up late just for this. And now we see that Puck is continuing his role as primary educator for Beatrix, introducing her to the Wonderful World of Bird-watching. =)

I’m surprised they’re not going MINE, MINE like the seagulls in Finding Nemo.

SPOILER ZONE

I thought for a moment that Elvis was all wrapped up in a towel in the last panel, and wondered if a water-and-gravity-and-possibly-Lupin-related sequence had been cut, due to language not fit for broadcast!

Now I see he’s just looking over his shoulder and the window glass and sunlight are distorting Camera One’s focus. Makes sense.

Blue Jays are noisy, but they are also beautiful against the background of snow. In the summer, the mockingbirds chase them away, but in winter they come to my feeders. Their favorite food seems to be peanuts.

Jay’s are noisy jerks, but the masters of annoyance are the Nagpies as my friend’s daughter used to call them.

Blue Jays are one of my favorite birds. They’re so gorgeous.

It was a great gimmick for Stone Cold Steve Austin, but don’t let the audience start WHAT?

I said don’t let the audience WHAT?

Interrupting WHAT?

Distracting WHAT?

Annoying WHAT?

I said annoying! WHAT?

everyone here in the comments.

She-Who-Is-Outraged – Outraged! – At-The-Casual-Way-Birds-Come-Into-Her-Garden would tell Elvis that all birds are jerks and should be doomed.

The blue jays in my neighborhood are actually scrub jays.

The blue jays that I’ve seen tend to be bullies and also liked to steal the cat food from the dish outside the back door. (I never saw one try to bully a cat, just other birds. Mockingbirds on the other hand, especially during nesting season . . .)

I’ve always enjoyed seeing cats interact with birds and squirrels when there is glass safely separating them. The prey seems to know that the predator is on the other side of a mysterious barrier, and need not be feared.

Elvis speaks the truth—they can be mean birds.

this is a beautifully drawn strip! love the blue jays, panel 2 with the tree and the speech balloon kind of intertwining and the special effect of Elvis and the window. Well Dunn, Georgia!!

Elvis is the local bird expert? Or just the local Bird Brain?

Years ago, I saw my cat Avvakuum stalking a little blue jay. The parents came and chased her out of the yard.

Biggest jerks in the bird world have to be mourning doves. Symbol of peace my sweet patootie.

The little Polydactyl Dungareed One watches intently to learn the ways of birds. She’s like a sponge, that girl.

Shouldn’t Elvis be directing his comment to Puck instead of Lupin?

Personally I’ve always preferred Chickadees.

Those birds can also be dangerous to your tail.

I like the way Beatrix is following Puck around and learning.

Having lost some hearing due to chemo, I no longer hear most bird song, but am most grateful to the mocking bird who I can hear

We’ve had both this month, Bluebirds and Blue Jays :)

Our two love to watch all birds. We have a large bush next to the screen porch and even in winter they like to crouch with head between two rails and stare into the bush. The year we had a nest was the best year ever for them.

TGIF, orbsters and orbabies! The only birds we are hearing these days are the chickadees, which always sound cranky to me. They hide in the evergreens and scold and scold and scold.

I came to dislike blue jays because when I was a child they would dive bomb our cat, Timmy, everytime he went outside. It was so bad he would only go out if he could stay undercover in the bushes (which luckily grew alongside the house.

Georgia posted this on Facebook. Scroll down to near the bottom and you’ll find Lupin Leaps In! https://link.bookriot.com/view/5ab965cc44d51f3f7f4fbf689my34.9i6/e1dc9a8e?fbclid=IwAR0BOwEOzbcFfOfNap0jmVh6Q49vYXTX_CxVEbacqPZZBrl73yrsATKvNng

All birds are jerks. That’s why cats try to eat them all and save this planet from those mean ol’ jerks. Right, Elvis?

What? The jays around our place say “Keel!” Or maybe I’m not hearing it right. Maybe it’s “Kill!”

WHAT?!

Along with owls, blue jays are reporter birds. Owls ask ‘Who?’ and jays ask ‘What?’. I don’t know who asks ‘Where?’, ‘When?’, or ‘Why?’

Birds! How apropos this morning.

Yesterday i got a call from the office, a caretaker of an estate for a client that i transported a few times last year asked the office if i would like to adopt the old gent’s two Parakeets.

YES!

They came with a large, floor standing flight cage, so when things calm down (for them) i,m going to introduce my old girl to them.

I need to get me an Instagram account. Then i could show you all my new babies. :D

Don’t get it.

Blue jay, blue jay, what do you see?

An angry Siamese, looking at me.

…….

Elvis, Elvis, what do you see?

A bunch of jerks sitting in a tree!

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Pucky, Pucky, what do you see?

A window to the world, with my little Bea!

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Beatrix, Beatrix, what do you see?

All my orb friends, the kitties, and me!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?

I always hear the BlueJays scream CAT! CAT! since that’s what they’d be saying as they harassed the family cat (a purebred Big City Alley Cat) as he made his way across the yard to the house. Yes, back in the 70’s he was our cat but he went out every day and night.

awwww reminds me of the photo Georgia once posted which inspired me to make this one…. scroll down, it is the third picture… https://sites.google.com/site/journeyinbilder/digital-paintings/cats

Jays are like inland seagulls.

Off topic: Diego

I’m glad to see that the little sweeties left Puck’s ears and tail intact.

On another topic, I was able to order my copies of both Breaking Cat News and Lupin Leaps In. Now I just have to wait [impatiently] for them to come. I have been informed that both have been shipped, but I want them right NOW!!!!!!!!!

Once upon a time one and his mate nested in the tree outside my window. Every morning when the boxes and/or the birdbaths were empty he would grab the screen use his entire body to shake the screen. One night my visiting dad awoke me before sunrise. He said someone was trying to break in. I asked him about it. Afterward I told him he and his family wanted food and water.

By the way, bluejays become very upset when squirrels and cats bother their nests.

Sometimes the tree is the same as the nest.

What?! The Boys aren’t nattering at the window at the birds. My cats sure do and I have to keep a certain giant dog from trying to go through the window after the birds too.

Blue jays used to bully the Dark-eyed Junco’s in our yard! J really does stand for jerk!

I have been hit or miss lately on the comments with all of the appointments etc. but I haven’t seen any comments from Shaunn or Lady Bri lately. Is everything ok? And Brein43, how are you doing?

We refer to our feeder as “The Cat Entertainment Center.”

Try woodpeckers, Elvis. A bird so dumb it will peck at aluminum siding.

If you think Blue Jays are jerks, you’ve never met Steller Jays.

I love watching birds; we have a wide variety around here, from some great horned owls down to the tiny little Carolina wrens. Our most common birds at the sunflower feeders are cardinals, chickadees, titmice, mourning doves, and Carolina wrens. In the deeps of winter until the very first edge of spring, we have flocks of goldfinches, too. For a few days in the late spring and the early fall, we see indigo buntings and rose-breasted grosbeaks, but they are just passing through, so they are only around for a day or three. We have ruby throat hummingbirds in high summer, but man are those violent little birds! If the person pushing the lawn mower gets too close to their tree, said person is liable to be skewered by those tiny sharp bills.

Akiro is very fond of the feeders that we hung at the edge of the porch; we call that his “entertainment center”.

About 8 hours ago Mudd said,

Oh boy a new adventure. I have considered a bird friend. I have lots of Chickadee friends that ‘talk’ to me when i go out to fill the feeder. Peace. :)

Look what I just got!

https://imgur.com/2VykKY5