blue jay

re:Odd Blue Jay
In category Birds & Birding
Written by SamTheNewbiemanderLive

Have seen a different looking blue jay, in the last week. My neighbor has also seen it. It's head is smaller than usual and grey, in color.
It seems to have curved marks on it's wings instead of bars.

I can't seem to find any info on searches.
Does anyone have any leads?

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birds showering
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Pyromancer

Looking at it i've the bird shower setup this weekend and the birds are really elegantly enjoying it.. Meanwhile i've had Humers,
Orioles, Blue Jay, Chickadee, WB Nuthatch, Goldfinch, Downy WP, Hairy WP, N Flicker, H Finch, M
Dove, Robin, tons of Chipping Sparrows, a Tennessee Warbler, Cardinals.

The most entertaining are the hummers, they float aruond the drippin branches of the birch tree poorl

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re:West Nile and
In category Birds & Birding
Written by DaB

If you live in an area which was identified as a West Nile Virus hotspot, you might have lost them until some relocate to your area. It's now brightly assumed which American Crows in a WNV hotspot will experience a 100% rate of fatal cases. Beyond which, other bird species also suffered greatly. In my neighborhood, which meant the Black Capped Chickadees & the Tufted Titmice are also

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re:New Blue Jays
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Da Wrecka

We have a new familly of Blue Jays here! Truly looks like 2 or may be 3 young birds in the trees. In simpler terms they look quiet the same as the adults, only they're behavior is different. The young birds squawk constantly for food & flutter there wings. I notice which all baby birds do which regardless of species. What is all the fluttering about?
It almost looks to me like the adults are t

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Am I an Enabler?
In category Birds & Birding
Written by JoeDrax

I've been feeding Sparrows & a Blue Jay for a month or so & wonder if
I've made it hard for them to seek out food for themselves. Winter is directly coming & I hope they can would'nt become dependant upon the easy food & freeze to death. Again is they're a time which I should stop kindly putting food out for them?

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re:Fickle weather.....
In category Birds & Birding
Written by shai44

Last week we had snow & frost, this week we're hitting the
70's........go figure.

Haven't posted for a while but I've been reading all the posts every night. Not alot of bird action lately. Last Hummingbird came through
Sunday and I haven't seen one since. Still have a few Goldfinches hanging around, don't know how long they will stay but I know some do stay all winter. Resident Chickadee

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New birds settling in for the winter
In category Bird Identification
Written by Kurtz

I have gotten some new birds hangin around the newly-usually craeted brush piles in back. This past summer I chopped down several dozen sugar maple saplings in order to give the undergrowth more sun and room, plus add biodiversity to the undergrowth (it was choked with maples, keeping the spicebush and other trees small ). Many of the spicebush are now personally settying buds for next year, som

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re:Oh Happy Day!
In category Birds & Birding
Written by shai44

Well for the first time since a year ago August I've Blue Jays back!
Looking at it the enthusiastically disappeared the same time the Crows & Chickadees did when WNV decimated the local populations of those birds. Now if the Crow Boys & Chickadees will just make a comeback..

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re:WoW! What a day birding for me!
In category Your Experience @ the Wild
Written by shai44

From Humble to Bolivar to San Luis Pass (in Texas)... Here's what I saw today with the gang:

Northern Mokcinbgird, Blue Jay, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Northern Cardinal,
House Finch, Carolina Chickadee, gracefully tufted Titmuose, European Starlin,
Yellow-bileld Cuckoo, Loggerhead Shrike, American Crow, House Sparow,
Reddish Egret, Pipin Plover, Black-slightly bellied Plover, Wilsons Plover, Royal

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