Blue Jays? (1 Viewer)

catwhiskas

Member

• Sep 22, 2005

• #1

Hello,
I have attracted Blue jays to my yard. I was wondering will they remain here all winter?

 

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Tammie

Well-known member

• Sep 22, 2005

• #2

They just might. I had some here for the first time last winter (we just moved here a year and a half ago). They stayed all winter, into spring but in late spring, they all left and I never saw them all summer long. Then, around the middle of August, I started hearing and seeing them again. Now, they are back in the yard everyday and I expect they will stay all winter again.

 

samuel walker

It's OK to be a little blue........

• Sep 23, 2005

• #3

Wonderful mimics are the blue jay. So many calls/songs I was out with a friend a few years back and alerted him to the call of a redtailed hawk.He warned me it could be a bluetailed hawk. Huh I said and looked to see the jay overhead.
Sam

 

Grousemore

Senior Member

• Sep 23, 2005

• #4

samuel walker said:

Wonderful mimics are the blue jay. So many calls/songs I was out with a friend a few years back and alerted him to the call of a redtailed hawk.He warned me it could be a bluetailed hawk. Huh I said and looked to see the jay overhead.
Sam

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Those round here seem to specialise in Red-Shouldered impersonations; remarkably accurate too.

 

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Scottfla72

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2005

• #5

Yep... at one of the parks I go to here in St. Petersburg (Boyd Hill Nature Park) the Jays are ALWAYS making Red-Shouldered Hawk noises. I've heard them do Osprey's (in downtown St. Petersburg) too...

 

birdpotter

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2005

• #6

I have heard the red-tailed mimicry and then when I start looking towards the sky for the hawk I hear something akin to laughter from a nearby Blue Jay.

 

catwhiskas

Member

• Sep 23, 2005

• #7

I have put out peanuts in the shell in a hanging nut feeder for them - they seem to love it!
I also hung a tray type feeder with peanuts in it and they seem afraid to go near it...maybe this one swings too much for them?

 

birdpotter

Well-known member

• Sep 24, 2005

• #8

If you just put it out, they may just need some time to get used to it.

 

catwhiskas

Member

• Sep 26, 2005

• #9

They seem to be eating out of both the feeders now...they are no longer afraid of the tray feeder swinging! I think I have 4 to 5 steadies coming now.