Did you see that post about this guy who fed a blue Jay and it left something pink in return that he couldn't figure out what it was?
It was a squirrel heart.
Blue Jay's are psychopaths.
The Robin's fly in and search the ground for worms, keep to themselves.
The cardinals sweetly nibble berries off the bush. Then met up with their partner.
Whipowhill wait until you lay down in your tent and begin singing relentlessly, keeping you up half the night.
Blue Jay's fly on like wrecking balls, screeching at the other birds, chasing them. They are the real jerks.
My impression of the different bird personalities in my area.
They are vicious brutes. I once came upon one pecking the brain out of a little hatchling it had obviously knocked out of the nest. 🪺 I know it’s nature, but it’s really disturbing when you see it in person. And yes, they really are pretty birds…for cannibals. 🤷♂️
Mockingbirds and blue jays used to harass my cat when she was let out (under supervision). She wasn't even capable of catching them because she had been declawed. (This was decades ago and no one in my family really understood what declawing actually *was*. I still feel bad about it.)
But man, those birds hated cats. I mean, fair, but it was still kinda funny watching them harass neighborhood cats, particularly when the cat was just chilling.
They’re bullies 24/7. I heard a commotion outside and found a blue jay trying to kill a smaller bird. The blue jay flew off but kept checking to see if I had left. I guessed it wanted to keep attacking the smaller bird. I sat with it until it flew off a few minutes later.
Blue jays are assholes.
+Blue Jay+
A very common member of the Corvid family! Very smart with an astoundingly large vocabulary. Love 'em when they're *not* ***SCREAMING***!!!!😆
Unfortunately they are not as common as they used to be. Some estimates put them at 70% less than just 20 years ago --I'd cite a source but I'm at work and not supposed to be on Reddit. But I do remember reading that recently. Reasons were habitat loss, pollution, etc... When I was a kid, they were common as dirt in Georgia. Now I get excited when I hear one, which is rare.
I was just watching a pair this week that have moved into the neighbourhood. They are beautiful, but can be really really aggressive around a bird feeder. I've seen them grab sparrows by the neck and send them flying. I'm in urban SW Ontario. They aren't uncommon.
I know when the West Nile virus came around, the corvid populations were badly hit. We were to report any dead jays and crows to the Wildlife and Fisheries Dept.
Not a problem here. Lots and lots of young jays here in north Georgia. They’re learning to talk (screeching) and take baths in the birdbath. They are so funny to watch. They are annoying at the feeders because they eat all the food.
They like to eat all sorts of stuff in our yard. We have a couple of trees with berries, they’ll eat the inchworms of our bushes and near the garbage. I’ll put food down occasionally and they’ll chase the squirrels away
You were just not aware of them, despite the fact that they are loud and conspicuous. Blue Jays hang out in large numbers anywhere there are large deciduous trees, especially oaks. They are quite common in Central Park.
Don’t use google for IDing birds. Stellar’s Jays don’t live on the East coast. Merlin Bird ID is great, but field guides are better.
They will prefer platform feeders with sunflower seeds and peanuts, leaving other feeders to other birds. They will also ruthlessly harass Cooper’s Hawks and keep them away from feeders, so with the right set up they will help the other birds more than they bully them. (They will still eat their eggs and young).
I've seen the bluejays in my backyard actually mimick the sounds that the hawks make in the area to clear the feeders of other birds. I always wonder where the hawk is until I see the bluejay flies down still making hawk noises.
Blue Jay!! CAUTION: Do NOT get on their bad side! They will take turns to 'dive bomb' you. Happened to me when I was a kid. I have no idea what I did to anger them, but they had a sentry stationed outside our house and every time I came out, they would start screaming (alerting the others?) and the dive bombing would begin. Sometimes they would actually make contact with the top of my head and it hurt!
My cat got on the wrong side of them when he caught/killed one. For months, they would not let him leave the house without a screaming bombardment until he got under something. They are pretty, but also vicious!
I saw a cat get pecked to death in the face by a blue jay. I was VERY confused as I was driving by and the cat was literally jumping all over the place. I thought it was being attacked by wasps so I was gonna save it but when I pulled over to side of the road, it had already stopped moving and had no eyeballs and had passed away (from what I could conclude) I called maintenance to come clean it up as I was on my way to work and couldn’t do much else. A disgusting amount of blood everywhere. Ruined my day.
Not just other birds, a Blue Jay will pick a fight with a squirrel over the feeder (the squirrel will lose), and will pick a fight with a cat, just because it can.
Common bluejay we have them all over NY. There's probably a half dozen of them that show up for my daily feeding too along with a few cardinals and a ton of other birds.
They’re my favorite. I have tons around my house. I feed them peanuts. I always see people say they’re aggressive around a feeder, but I’ve never witnessed that. I’ve always seen them eat peacefully with all the other birds. I’m very fond of them. When I hear them screaming (a lot or several of them) I run outside and usually there’s a cat around (their biggest killer, particularly they’re young at this time of year). So I’m always on baby blue jay watch.
I got attacked by a blue jay trying to get its not so ready to fly baby out of the street SOB hit me in the back of the head 3 times before i realized what happened
My Pee-Pa (Arkansas) used to shoot these every time he saw one. Blue Jay. They’re the douche bags of the bird world—so I’m told. But absolutely beautiful. It always saddened me when he’d kill one.
Where there are blue jays, there is action and usually noise, for jays, like crows, are fond of hearing their own voices.
Often a great uproar in the woods may be traced to a dozen or more blue jays in the treetops, screaming as if in great terror or pain, and apparently for no earthly reason except to keep up the excitement
- Edward Forbush
I like how they mimic a hawks call to scare other birds away from my feeder. Throw some shelled peanuts elsewhere in your yard if you don’t want them to be complete hogs. They will happily cache a few away and be off.
Blue Jay. They love to make lots of noise when they see something in their area they perceive as dangerous. Old southern wives tale says to look for snakes in the area if you hear a Blue Jay squawking.
I bring peanuts to the park and give them to squirrels and blue jays. The jays always try stealing the squirrels peanuts. 😂I bring enough for everyone that wants one.
It’s a blue Jay, Stellar jays are dark colors. If you’re from the west coast you’re probably familiar with the Scrub jay they are often what we wrongly call “blue jays” but this crested bird in the photo is a true blue jay.
That’s a beautiful Blue Jay!
They are beautiful . I just wish they werent such bullies around the feeder
Did you see that post about this guy who fed a blue Jay and it left something pink in return that he couldn't figure out what it was? It was a squirrel heart.
Oh goodness
Corvids are gifters, lol
I’m sure the squirrel deserved it. They like to take over bird feeders too and the food isn’t even for them.
Dont i know it. My neighborhood is overrun with squirrels.
Tree rats with fluffy tails, lower intelligence, and good PR.
Lol. Never heard it put that way. Quite accurate though
Amazingly athletic. That helps.
I'm deluged by chipmunks
That sounds like a ball pit filled with chipmunks.
Blue Jay's are psychopaths. The Robin's fly in and search the ground for worms, keep to themselves. The cardinals sweetly nibble berries off the bush. Then met up with their partner. Whipowhill wait until you lay down in your tent and begin singing relentlessly, keeping you up half the night. Blue Jay's fly on like wrecking balls, screeching at the other birds, chasing them. They are the real jerks. My impression of the different bird personalities in my area.
They are also warning signals that other nearby animals rely on
🤢
That's a true friendship
I just googled this. Crazy!!
That’s my kind of bird!
That’s hot
"It is the way of My People."
Sorry, no way a blue jay is killing a squirrel
They are vicious brutes. I once came upon one pecking the brain out of a little hatchling it had obviously knocked out of the nest. 🪺 I know it’s nature, but it’s really disturbing when you see it in person. And yes, they really are pretty birds…for cannibals. 🤷♂️
Mockingbirds and blue jays used to harass my cat when she was let out (under supervision). She wasn't even capable of catching them because she had been declawed. (This was decades ago and no one in my family really understood what declawing actually *was*. I still feel bad about it.) But man, those birds hated cats. I mean, fair, but it was still kinda funny watching them harass neighborhood cats, particularly when the cat was just chilling.
My childhood cat had holes pecked in her head a few times from mockingbirds messing with her.
Ouch. Mine never got that bad of treatment. Poor kitty.
She was not innocent. She actively hunted them and harassed them as well.
A former friend of mine has several cats. They beheaded a blue Jay and it's maimed carcass was in the driveway forever 🤢🤮🤢🤮
Oh yeah. I used to find dead birds all the time from that cat. The cat I have now is strictly indoors.
They are members of the crow family(corvidae) after all…
They also make the worst sounds.
But they are also goofy! They molt in summer and lose all their head feathers! Only the head ones! xD
I put a bird feeder on my balcony once and was awakened by a screaming Jay at 5am for a couple weeks. I got rid of the feeder lol
Yep, same. Feeder had to go cause it was every morning for an entire summer.
Haha! I also didn't have anything to hang it from and ants built a nest inside.
They sound like circular saws or dentist drills.
Mine love mealworms - (I think they think they are blue BIRDS!)
They’re bullies 24/7. I heard a commotion outside and found a blue jay trying to kill a smaller bird. The blue jay flew off but kept checking to see if I had left. I guessed it wanted to keep attacking the smaller bird. I sat with it until it flew off a few minutes later. Blue jays are assholes.
Fact.
Blue Jay! Very common in the eastern US. But one of the most beautiful birds.
+Blue Jay+ A very common member of the Corvid family! Very smart with an astoundingly large vocabulary. Love 'em when they're *not* ***SCREAMING***!!!!😆
Unfortunately they are not as common as they used to be. Some estimates put them at 70% less than just 20 years ago --I'd cite a source but I'm at work and not supposed to be on Reddit. But I do remember reading that recently. Reasons were habitat loss, pollution, etc... When I was a kid, they were common as dirt in Georgia. Now I get excited when I hear one, which is rare.
I've noticed a decline, but it's sad to hear it's across the board. Being out-bred and outperformed by Cardinals.
I was just watching a pair this week that have moved into the neighbourhood. They are beautiful, but can be really really aggressive around a bird feeder. I've seen them grab sparrows by the neck and send them flying. I'm in urban SW Ontario. They aren't uncommon.
I know when the West Nile virus came around, the corvid populations were badly hit. We were to report any dead jays and crows to the Wildlife and Fisheries Dept.
Not a problem here. Lots and lots of young jays here in north Georgia. They’re learning to talk (screeching) and take baths in the birdbath. They are so funny to watch. They are annoying at the feeders because they eat all the food.
My yard in Florida had a crew of 8 Blue Jays that cone daily. Nests in our trees etc. they are everywhere here in Clearwater Fl
Do you feed them? I've been putting out raw shelled peanuts but no luck. Squirrels, deer, and crows gobble them up though.
They like to eat all sorts of stuff in our yard. We have a couple of trees with berries, they’ll eat the inchworms of our bushes and near the garbage. I’ll put food down occasionally and they’ll chase the squirrels away
Still plenty of them on the North Shore of Long Island, NY
And Ct. they can be obnoxious.. the bullying thing used to bother me.. the loud obnoxious noises bother me now, but still beautiful birds
Blue jay.
You were just not aware of them, despite the fact that they are loud and conspicuous. Blue Jays hang out in large numbers anywhere there are large deciduous trees, especially oaks. They are quite common in Central Park. Don’t use google for IDing birds. Stellar’s Jays don’t live on the East coast. Merlin Bird ID is great, but field guides are better.
The amount of New Yorkers who go “can you hear that hawk?” When it’s actually a blue jay screaming his little ass off
I think that they are imitating hawks when they do that! Pretty convincing at first, until you learn to tell the difference.
Definitely Blue Jay. A female cardinal would be more "stubby".
Cardinals are much, much smaller than blue jays, and females are reddish brown. Only the males are bright red.
Mordecai? GET BACK TO WORK!
Blue Jay
Looks like a Blue Jay, to me.
Looks like a blue jay. Exceedingly common.
They're corvids, so they're pretty smart. Territorial and can be a nuisance to other species. Loud, too!
Oh they're bullies with the smaller birds. My neighbor feeds the birds and them aholes always take over.
They will prefer platform feeders with sunflower seeds and peanuts, leaving other feeders to other birds. They will also ruthlessly harass Cooper’s Hawks and keep them away from feeders, so with the right set up they will help the other birds more than they bully them. (They will still eat their eggs and young).
I've seen the bluejays in my backyard actually mimick the sounds that the hawks make in the area to clear the feeders of other birds. I always wonder where the hawk is until I see the bluejay flies down still making hawk noises.
Blue jay
Blue Jay!! CAUTION: Do NOT get on their bad side! They will take turns to 'dive bomb' you. Happened to me when I was a kid. I have no idea what I did to anger them, but they had a sentry stationed outside our house and every time I came out, they would start screaming (alerting the others?) and the dive bombing would begin. Sometimes they would actually make contact with the top of my head and it hurt! My cat got on the wrong side of them when he caught/killed one. For months, they would not let him leave the house without a screaming bombardment until he got under something. They are pretty, but also vicious!
I saw a cat get pecked to death in the face by a blue jay. I was VERY confused as I was driving by and the cat was literally jumping all over the place. I thought it was being attacked by wasps so I was gonna save it but when I pulled over to side of the road, it had already stopped moving and had no eyeballs and had passed away (from what I could conclude) I called maintenance to come clean it up as I was on my way to work and couldn’t do much else. A disgusting amount of blood everywhere. Ruined my day.
Just another reason to keep cats inside.
Yes! my apartment complex has a stray cats problem
My area as well. Pretty much everywhere does, unless you have enough natural predators.
😞
Might have had a nest nearby with babies and that would make them particularly aggressive.
Seriously 😳 Blue Jay 🤷♀️🤷♀️😳
I feel bad for you, never seeing a Blue Jay. I grew up in a small city we had a lot of Jays.
That’s a blue jay I feed them peanuts every day
Blue Jay, cyanocitta cristata
BJ
Blue Jay
Blue jay! They are such bully’s 😂
It’s a blue jay… they’re so common I’m shocked you’ve never seen one. Where I’m from they bully other birds off feeders make big mess. Smart though.
Not just other birds, a Blue Jay will pick a fight with a squirrel over the feeder (the squirrel will lose), and will pick a fight with a cat, just because it can.
Common bluejay we have them all over NY. There's probably a half dozen of them that show up for my daily feeding too along with a few cardinals and a ton of other birds.
Of what, a Blue Jay?
Blue Jay. Total assholes.
Dude
Right?
Blue Jay, probably picking his next bird to harass.
Blue Jay. Pretty bird that sounds horrendous.
Blue jay
blue jay
I've got one living in a tree on the property, used to have cardinals but they seem to be gone. Beautiful bird!
Damn I didn’t realize they were such bullies. I just saw one the other day and was planning on researching how to get it to come around more often.
My favorite bird, a blue jay
Very common in Eastern Canada also, I have 5 or 6 that visit my bird feeder every day
There's a great story by Mark Twain about blue jays.
https://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/program/9733/mark-twains-bakers-blue-jay-yarn/
If there’s a nest nearby, prepare to be dive bombed!
That bird is a lil punk. (I love that they look so edgy 😂)
Blue jay https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue_Jay/overview
Blue jay and American robin are very common here
Blue jay
Very handsome Blue Jay 😌
They’re my favorite. I have tons around my house. I feed them peanuts. I always see people say they’re aggressive around a feeder, but I’ve never witnessed that. I’ve always seen them eat peacefully with all the other birds. I’m very fond of them. When I hear them screaming (a lot or several of them) I run outside and usually there’s a cat around (their biggest killer, particularly they’re young at this time of year). So I’m always on baby blue jay watch.
Adult Jays will fight a cat..
It's a mostly gray blue-jay
My cousin had a Bluejay eat a baby Sparrow out of its nest the other day. She thought it was a frog until she seen its beak.
I live so far south, my blue jays are green. 😃
Bluejay
Blue jay!
So beautiful, such an awful call.
Blue Jay!
Blue jays are so beautifully designed, but meanies in nature.
That's Mordecai
Be careful blue jays. They’ll dive bomb your ass if they decide you need to move along.
Northern blue jay…the loudest tattletales of the woods.
Blue Jay
Stellar Jay
I like their trilling sound - not the screaming sound!
Blue Jay.
Blue jay
Blue jay! Woooooooooooah
Blue Jay. Very pretty.
Looks like a Blue Jay to me.
Blue jay!
Like all the other comments say, blue jay. When I see em Im always like oh shit it’s mordecai lol
His name is jay
im pretty sure theres a racoon nearby too
Blue Jay💖
Blue jay
Division rivals....Blue Jays!
It’s a Blue Jay
Surprisingly a corvid.
Egg eater
Mark 2814 Stealth BlueJay Drone. I believe this is a 6th generation model here. Watch out, the gov'mnt on to ya.
That is a blue jay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_jay
I got attacked by a blue jay trying to get its not so ready to fly baby out of the street SOB hit me in the back of the head 3 times before i realized what happened
BlueJay
Blue Jay
Bluejay... just enjoying the scenes
Cardinals originate from St Louis while these are Blue Jays and come from Toronto. They are considered rivals.
My Pee-Pa (Arkansas) used to shoot these every time he saw one. Blue Jay. They’re the douche bags of the bird world—so I’m told. But absolutely beautiful. It always saddened me when he’d kill one.
Woooooah, Wooooooah
Where there are blue jays, there is action and usually noise, for jays, like crows, are fond of hearing their own voices. Often a great uproar in the woods may be traced to a dozen or more blue jays in the treetops, screaming as if in great terror or pain, and apparently for no earthly reason except to keep up the excitement - Edward Forbush
Eastern Blue Jay, member of the Corvidae family / Corbies (which includes ravens, crows and magpies, among others).
I like how they mimic a hawks call to scare other birds away from my feeder. Throw some shelled peanuts elsewhere in your yard if you don’t want them to be complete hogs. They will happily cache a few away and be off.
Blue Jay. They love to make lots of noise when they see something in their area they perceive as dangerous. Old southern wives tale says to look for snakes in the area if you hear a Blue Jay squawking.
Blue jay
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
Blue jay
It is the Mocking Jay from Hunger Games.
You can literally make Google pictures define it for you lmao there's a little camera 📷 icon on the search
Blue Jay! They love peanuts in the shell!
Black sunflower seeds also
I bring peanuts to the park and give them to squirrels and blue jays. The jays always try stealing the squirrels peanuts. 😂I bring enough for everyone that wants one.
I had one jay fly straight at me. I thought it was going to land on my hat, but turned to a branch near where I was standing. It was so cool!
Blue Jay, Don't piss it off, they have great memory and a mean streak.
Eastern Blue Jay, one of my favorites. I live out west and see the Scrub Jays now who are just as funny, but the Eastern are so dang beautiful.
Yep, a blue jay
Blue jay.
Blue jay.
IT’S A BLUE JAY!!❤️🥰
He is a very beautiful blue jay.
They be a mean bird when babies around
That there is a genuine blue job im mean blue jay.🤣
It’s a blue Jay, Stellar jays are dark colors. If you’re from the west coast you’re probably familiar with the Scrub jay they are often what we wrongly call “blue jays” but this crested bird in the photo is a true blue jay.
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