Bird Behaviour: Eurasian Jay Caching Acorns and Tossing Peanuts

Eurasian Jay collecting acorns and peanuts and caching them away in preparation for winter when it will remember where it had hidden a high proportion of them. Also a close up view of its habit of tossing peanuts.

[@mattellis4176]

Amazing, I didn't know they could cache and carry food like that. When I've seen a jay with an acorn I thought it was just carrying the one.

[@timhuggins1993]

Thanks for this valuable information b, I have just had my first one arrive in my town garden south of Oxford after 18months daily feeding and watering the wild birds it . is a real surprise to see one of these that I thought was very rarely seen In gardens even though they are UK garden bird I guess . They remind me of a paler Magpie I'm pleased to now know I need to keep feeding peanuts and acorns from the large over hanging oak tree soon to keep them returning . I started in lockdown boredom from my usual hobbies not being able to do having never had interest in birds . However I enjoy it now as a younger mid 20s birder as I even feel guilty for not refilling food up daily incase they don't come back ! it turns into a labour of love and new thing to look forward to outside over the cold shorter winter days and a joy for me to look forward to more of the 16 or so different species I had visit often since I started beside the frequent hedgehog and the odd fox !

[@taithmacerca2953]

Quite a busy chap.

[@BadgerBotherer1]

That bird's a hell of a tosser. Great filming, Maurice!

[@MauriceBaker100]

Yes a real tosser, thanks Jeremy.

[@mumofbrunodog]

I just searched for this behaviour. We have 2 Jays visit the garden every day and although we put out loads of different bird food each day, we never used to put out whole peanuts. I always thought that little birds might choke on whole peanuts (although I don’t know why I thought that as I’m sure they are pretty sensible!) . Anyway, a month or so ago, we threw some nuts out for the squirrel and I noticed both the blackbirds and the Jay’s going straight for them so we do it every day now. This morning I saw the Jay doing exactly this and storing loads of nuts. I wondered if he might be stashing them somewhere. It was good to see him helping himself to a nice feed! Thank you for your video.

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Nice captures Maurice! Thank you for sharing the lovely video with us.👍😎JP

[@angeliquecaroartt7542]

Thank you for this video showing the Eurasian Jay. I find those small blue/black check feathers in my garden many times but didn't realise which bird was visiting.

[@kweeeng4347]

As always your videos are very well filmed and presented, Maurice. Thank you for sharing this beautiful video.

[@violina48]

Thank you for this wonderful share dear Maurice! Beautifully filmed!

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you Annemieke so much for your very kind comments.

[@DoubleUThings]

That picture at the end... Beautiful. Thanx again for the nice video, Maurice Greetingz, Wim

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you Wim for your comments , I'm pleased that you enjoyed the video.

[@DoubleUThings]

@@MauriceBaker100 In between the overkill of "sensational" videos it's good to just enjoy simple (but soooo beautiful) nature videos, Maurice.

[@MauriceBaker100]

@@DoubleUThings Thank you again, your comments are very much appreciated. At 77 I am still full of wonderment at the beauty of nature and find that there is still so much to see and find out about the simple things things that surround us in our everyday life, kind regards Maurice.

[@DoubleUThings]

@@MauriceBaker100 Life is too short to see everything, man... I'm happy I believe in an eternal afterlife, otherwise I would run around frantically to see even more than I see now :-)

[@davidlewis726]

Excellent work! Very well observed and presented. Lovely photography and cinematography.

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you David, your generous comments are much appreciated.

[@NatthapholTem]

Can you please make a tour of your garden?

[@RandomButtonPusher]

Great to see a new video from you Maurice!

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thanks for commenting, it's good to be back in the saddle!

[@renaturezalife1001]

Fantastic 👍🙋💚 Renato RS 🇧🇷 BRASIL

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you, I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

[@jarmilakacirkova]

Great video, congratulations to Jarmila

[@luciarojas2101]

Gracias por permitirnos disfrutar de tan hermoso e instructivo vídeo. Felicitaciones.

[@lovelyladygodbless143]

Very nice beautiful.

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you for your kind comments.

[@rachelhybrid632]

Lovely thankyou 😊

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you Rachel for your kind comment.