Jay fly over my garden. Landed in a tree about two gardens away. Got quite
excited, they are quite a rarity where I live. I live in a rural village but there is
no woodland close by. I thought they were mainly woodland birds.
They are so stunning, aren't they! Until they start squawking at each other, that is. We get them raiding the fruit trees in the autumn, but I'm not sure what they eat at this time of year.
I have seen adult with youngsters before in a park which has plenty of trees.
I had a bag of nuts with me for the squirrels, but the jays got their fair share.
They can be quite tame. Beautiful colours!
I wouldn't have thought they were tame cupid, always try to hop away whenever I spy one in a tree. Mind you I've never acttually put food out for them, maybe that would alter things. I'd love to see one with youngsters, only ever seen solitary ones.
Does that mean I'll have to add them to my list of birds I'm not keen on. Our
garden birds seem to do a lot of squawking at the mo because there are two
magpies getting close to the nest. the noise is horrible.
I get them visiting my bird table most of the year as long as there's some peanuts out for them, beautiful creatures up close.
Here's one I managed to snap last year
http://i791.photobuck...s/yy197/D97x7/088.jpg
ladybirder - oh heck yes, if I'd thought about it I would have realised that. Yuck. Of course, they're closely related to the murderous magpies aren't they.
:-(
Hiya Cupid... we saw a Jay in our garden last week... I feed the birds here... I put the seed on our garden wall, so they can see anything unwanted coming,and get away easily... I live on an estate, so was really suprised.. very pretty bird...on a sad note though... the crows got all the pigeon babies that were in the nest in a tree in our garden!.. shame : - ((( Mrs C xx