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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: Shortsighted on February 23, 2020, 05:29:45 PM

Title: Backyard Blue Jays
Post by: Shortsighted on February 23, 2020, 05:29:45 PM

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Title: Re: Backyard Blue Jays
Post by: Axeman on February 25, 2020, 05:39:34 PM

They remind me of the velociraptors from Jurassic Park with the way they hunt in a pack...the sound they make...I'll bet you Spielberg got his inspiration for the velociraptors from blue jays.

In the winter that's pretty much what we get at the feeders...about a dozen jays...a dozen chickadees...a dozen juncos...a few cardinals and the odd downy or hairy....maybe a nuthatch...oh...a few red squirrels...one black phased eastern grey squirrel (he's relatively well behaved) and a few deer.