Some of them also twitch the tail just before striking at food. That one is excitement rather than warning.
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Keeps corns and kings. Has watched a great many sheds.
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Open it slowly, come in from the side rather than down from above, and let him see you before anything touches him. A hand descending from overhead is a bird as far as he is concerned. Touching him with a hook first also tells him this is not feeding, which takes a lot of the tension out.