Cute and Funny Blue Jay Behavior

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[@suejensen7730]

Thanks for all those darling birds doing their funny antics. Loved it! The other day (in July) I was at a park and there was a mound of dirt and pine tree debri behind where a circle of us were sitting. There were a lot of crows and their offspring trying to see if we had any food. Suddenly I heard a crow sounding distressed. When I turned around there was a juvenile crow layin on his back with his feet in the air in that mound of dirt and pine needles and an adult crow was poking him in the belly! It looked just like a tickle fest between a parent and toddler. The juvenile almost seemed to be laughing. They flew up into the trees above our heads while we laughed at their antics.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

@@suejensen7730 Hahaha omg that is too adorable. I've never seen that before, it's awesome that you did.

[@01bmw325xi]

I've always viewed the Blue Jay as an aggressive bully. They come pretty regularly. I'm trying to follow your leed.

[@micahbirdlover8152]

I just heard some bluejay today ☝️

[@franticfactory]

I laughed SO HARD when you got to the sunning! That expression is hysterical!

[@MegInWhispers]

2:59 OMG 😂😂

[@Levi-he6nj]

The look stoned asf

[@kathleensteeves488]

😂😂😂😂

[@kristinekalapos1066]

@@Levi-he6nj That is exactly what I was thinking!!

[@iNuchalHead]

There's a red-tailed hawk in my neighborhood. When he's around ALL of the jays fly in from all over to mob him. Always makes me smile. Another mobbing story.... once saw a mockingbird chasing a crow chasing a vulture.

[@marylarsen2288]

We have a red-tailed hawk in our neighbourhood who I've named "Screamo" because he's constantly flying in circles around the area screaming. I've learned, though, that he's probably doing that to tell other hawks that this is his territory and to back off. While I find him to be lovely and fascinating, the jays and starlings really don't like him. lol

[@tiankuohua5167]

In our community park there is a flock of nighthawks that always chase my RC planes.

[@moonbean657]

I saw a red winged black bird get swooped by a hawk, I think a red-tail. Poor thing

[@akrobatish]

@@moonbean657 those things are little pricks i wouldnt feel too bad XD only bird ive ever been attacked by. on several occasions LOL

[@silvanliu8168]

@@akrobatish wdym LOL

[@bighornmt]

My Jays' are really emotional and loud right now because of their molting and mating season. My poor babies!

[@FriedFreya]

Awh :( I hope they're feeling better by now!

[@bobseagraves1743]

Mine molt in late summer... talk about bad hair days!

[@charmoo46962]

almost every morning i hear them when i first get up it always puts a smile on my face... And they sure get chatty when you don't have their peanuts out there for them when they think you should lol!!

[@yeetnama9094]

HAHAHA Soooo true!!!😆

[@SuperMonaLisaBros]

I love blue jay's resting "where did I come from?" face!

[@BlueDudette]

Loved every minute! One day, I kept hearing what sounded like a duck outside my window. I peered out and there was blue jay quacking...it was the funniest thing.

[@bobseagraves1743]

They let the smaller birds what other larger and predatory birds are around.

[@jkm3297]

Hahahahahah that's awesome!

[@kirkfromflorida1088]

Thank you so much for your video. I'm a retired veteran disabled. I'm 62 years old. But I love to watch Birds. I have a bird feeder in my backyard. And I sit on my porch. And I smoke my tobacco pipe and watch the birds. And I got squirrels to. God bless you. Your friend Kirk.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Thanks so very much for everything! I hope that the birds provide you much enjoyment watching them :) Take care

[@kirkfromflorida1088]

@@LesleytheBirdNerd God bless you. Young lady. Your friend Kirk.

[@franklypsyched8338]

Sweet girl flickering and whining as she took food from your hand, such moody little birds! It's adorable.

[@davidhurwitz6495]

From birds and squirrels to deer and horses and almost anything in between, you can always make a friend with food. It's truly a universal language.

[@lep23456]

Your coverage of Blue Jays have brought me great joy. I usually don't comment on your videos but watch them a lot and get a lot of my informative data from your postings. I have started putting peanuts out on a covered table feeding house. (I have tried to hand feed but I do have dogs and I know they won't come near with the dogs being so close...I am okay with that.) I now have Bluejays following me around the neighborhood. I will come out of a neighbor's house and they all do the "happy sound" and call out to each other that I am outside. There's every chance they might get some more peanuts if I'm outside (at least in their opinion). When I take the dogs outside for their first ball throw of the morning, I usually finish up filling the feeders and putting peanuts out for the Jays. So as soon as I come outside, they do the "happy sound" and the call echoes all over the neighborhood as they fly in from all points to my yard and do their typical Bluejay "Meep!" call. As if to say, "hurry up, what took you so long?!" You have given me so much joy sharing your insight to these guys and I too have garnered so much joy fostering a relationship with my local Bluejays. Thank you!

[@Kamelg]

You are a Disney Princess. Confirmed. When I was younger, I found birds that fell from the nest all the time. The funniest was a magpie. When my aunt was eating soup and turned away for a sec, the magpie stole her spoon xD And when I put her to sleep on a makeshift nest, she always came down and cuddled to my neck when I was sleeping, so I always woke up with her sleeping next to me.

[@cattailer1077]

Never realized how hilariously cute they are. And glad you told us that bald jays aren’t sick, they’re actually molting🥰

[@lnghrnfn]

That's exactly what I thought when I first saw one! Those heads remind me of vultures!

[@marylousherman5471]

Yes, thanks for that info...one of my jays lost it's mate one evening in July and kept calling into the darkness and the rain for it, but it never came back...I heard a hawk screech within that same time-frame and wondered if it had nabbed the partner. Anyway, within a week or so the lone jay showed up w/o head feathers and I thought it was from the stress of losing its mate. Glad to know its molting and normal. That jay woke me every morning at dawn for at least a month calling for its mate. It was sad.

[@cattailer1077]

@@marylousherman5471 So sorry! that brought me to tears. They have such strong personalities, I never stopped to realize that have to deal with having their mate being taken by a hawk. I feel for you too😔

[@jkm3297]

@@marylousherman5471 That IS sad! But I guess the Hawk has to eat. Nature really is something indeed

[@Naheanalu]

Yesterday my better half and I witnessed a Merlin attack on an unsuspecting Grackle and within a split second one of our resident Jay's swooped in for the distraction and rescue. It was an amazing sight to behold... we love our Jays immensely.

[@kathleengeiser6956]

I now have the blue Jay's coming to my front door every day to squawk for peanuts. They bring lots of joy!🐦

[@carolynricker1645]

Since I started feeding my local Bluejays, I am in love with them. They scream at me when I come outside to feed them. They are my favorite bird- so much personality!

[@tangymooney8339]

Years ago, we were sitting on the porch feeding the blue jays peanuts. The peanuts were in a plastic bag sitting on the floor near us. A blue jay flew down and grabbed the whole bag and tried to fly away with it. He made it about 50 feet before he lost it. We laughed so hard at his antic.

[@phill8005]

I feed crows and they are amazingly smart. They recognize me and know my patterns. They can identify me from 200 yards and will call out to me. I also feed Canadian geese who peck at my window for me to feed them.

[@dorfsteen]

Pretty amazing that you get them to land on your hand and then eat out of your hand Blue Jays usually very shy and standoffish

[@Jonerzz]

I love my Bluejays. They are fascinating to watch. In particular I love the way they work as a team. They provide a warning system for predators in the area. Whenever I hear my jays sounding the alarm call, I know a hawk is in the area. I can see them all flitting from tree to tree squawking and surrounding the enemy. I've witnessed several times when the hawk gave up and flew away with four or more Jays hot on their tail, screeching at him as they chase him away. It is quite impressive!

[@colemarie9262]

The sunning!! That's crazy how comfortable they must be around you to do that. Besides being amused at their poses, I'm genuinly impressed.

[@patriciafong-edwards3777]

I like the birds when they’re bald LOL. I also like when the male bird resorted to giving his girlfriend a piece of grass when he didn’t have any peanuts offer.

[@annsanimationaddiction8024]

Also oh my god, I remember seeing three babies screaming and chasing their parents around last spring hahah

[@BK-qp8zp]

Lesley, I'm with you - I just LOVE bluejays. I have a pair in my immediate vicinity, and they seem to act as the warning system for all the other birds (& critters) when danger is in the air. I also love cardinals and, although I do hear them around, I hardly ever see them. One day, I had a gift like no other. We have a large front window that faces the front deck. One day, I just happened to be walking by (in the house) and saw the cardinal. As I was doing the usual intake of breath I do when seeing one, about two feet from it (on the same deck rail) a bluejay landed! Holy cow, I couldn't take in enough breath!! But the funniest part was when, a couple of seconds later, they looked at each other and moved their heads in such a way as if to say, "Bruh, whas up?" They didn't seem threatened by each other in the least. Then they simply flew off in different directions. I felt like my brother and son were giving me that gift.

[@KHolzer444]

I’ve seen bald cardinals before, I got confused thinking they were new fletchings, but they were they same cardinals that have been living in our plant for over a year now

[@kristyandcowreact]

Watching how disgusted Blue was at the other bird landing in you. His face is priceless 🤣🤣🤣

[@lynnbucher6023]

I love Blue Jays and I just love these videos. How I envy you your relationships with these birds. My mom used to hang out laundry talking with the blue jays in the trees. She trained them to wait until she took laundry in before they could sit on the clothesline and sing. It was funny to watch them fight over nuts on the feeder with the squirrels. These videos are wonderful and I can't understand why people don't love these wonderful birds!

[@easydiddit]

Blue Jays around here have been called "camp robbers" ever since I can remember. I don't know why. I love the way you share your joy, thank you for sharing your beautiful heart. You are loved

[@silvanliu8168]

i think u mean gray jays

[@becca5100]

I clearly remember one of them literally stealing a pancake from a hot frying pan while I was camping

[@becca5100]

@@silvanliu8168 exactly

[@MegInWhispers]

this is also a nickname for Stellar's Jays 🐦

[@jamiejudd7146]

Seeing those babes sunning themselves was probably the cutest & most hilarious thing I've ever seen them doing! 😂 In Winter after a snowfall, I always enjoy seeing their little bird tracks on my porch leading up to the dry catfood I put out.

[@SarahSunflower25]

I feed the Jays in my neighborhood daily. My favorite is when they come to eat at my bird feeder and try the old cheeky hawk call to scare the other birds away so they can get their fill of seed. 😂😂😂

[@katrinashostakovich3607]

it never ceases to amaze me how incredibly beautiful these birds are. I wish we had them here in Southern California! We do have plenty of scrub Jays, and one funny thing Ive noticed them do is when I give them peanuts, and they cant carry two, they literally pick one up, drop it, then go to another, pick it up, drop it, and sometimes even a third- and finally, selecting the one that has the most weight to it. These guys are super smart! ❤🐦😊

[@outoftheklosset]

My favorite is the grass offering and the watching of the spouse steal the peanut and then having to check it out in dismay! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's like when you see the cookie package left out empty and you have to check to REALLY see that there's no more cookies left.😂

[@ericmaher4756]

That little foot stomping, tho 😆 He’s like: I really mean it!

[@suzipam1234]

My little Jay that was born nearby comes to the squirrel nuts daily, makes this swears, to tell me to fill the dish up. As soon as we hear it we do it and now he knows he has us trained. Then he will eat and leave. Only to return the next day and do the same. Just love them

[@panatypical]

They look so zoned out when they're sunning themselves. I like the way they get ticked. They remind me of cats.

[@stephaniehill5043]

Thank you for sharing this delightful assortment of jay behaviors. They are such dear, intelligent birds and my favorites along with crows. One of my favorite sights and sounds in the world is a blue jay begging for food! It’s fun to watch them as they’re solving problems etc because you can just see the wheels turning.

[@SenecaRaccoon]

The wing flicking while taking peanuts from your hand. Its like the poor jay came to tell you about her rough day. Haha! Beautiful creatures!

[@johngeverett]

You must be a gentle soul for those jays to trust you and come so close. It's a special relationship.

[@cynthianorman44]

♥️😘♥️Thank you♥️😘♥️ I live in Southern Calif, but I was raised in Berkeley, Ca where we had many Blue Jay's. Here none. But, with great love and care I feed Crows that began merely as 5 Crows, and eventually became over 30 Crows. I love them.♥️😘♥️Thank you♥️😘♥️ Plus, I separately feed Mourning Doves, I love them all♥️😘♥️

[@lornabartlett2744]

Thank you Leslie, I'm going to start the watercolors with Melinda Howard ! Really interesting how persisting a behavior my blue jay, sweet girl, has become for her daily peanuts. I'd like to try the liver pieces see what other Foods she will take as an offering for good health wealth and happiness. For just being closer to our natural world of free flyers feathered friends.

[@vincentmaloney5835]

Love it! I just started feeding the birds in my garden. I live in Missouri. Today I cracked some English walnuts and hazelnuts. Blue jays found them instantly. I like the way blue jays take peanuts right from your hands. That will be my goal to achieve. Absolutely adorable.

[@sherryw.1466]

We have shelled peanuts in our squirrel feeder and unshelled peanuts in our bird feeder, and we find “hidden” peanuts all over our yard. We always thought it was the squirrels. We watch the blue jays and squirrels fight over who gets them, but we never knew that blue jays also hide them.😂

[@peggywerner5205]

I live in Big Horn County Wyoming and I've just seen a couple of Blue Jays feeding at my big feeder in the morning. They are so beautiful. You are so blessed to get that close to them and can hand feed them!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@goodnessgracious7323]

There's no such thing as too much time with the birds ❤️

[@Faye786]

I've never been around bluejay's long or close enough to see these silly/ cute antics. 😍🥰💜

[@ronbrown2290]

We enjoy your videos, and so do our Grandchildren. Four or five years ago we would have a couple Blue Jays visit in the fall, squawking "feed me, feed me" so we gave them peanuts. In the spring they were back so we started hiding peanuts on our covered deck outside our kitchen patio doors. If we did not hide them then a small flock of Magpies would raid the deck. The pair knew all the hiding places. Then one day they brought the kids. Five young were here twice a day all summer. Mom and Dad would visit to check in on them about once a week. Over fall and winter the seven were here together most every day to find peanuts and drink from our heated pet bowl. Next spring there were 3 more chicks, 10 daily.

[@Bullen_3]

I loved it when she dropped the piece of grass? "Tf im a supposed to do with this,you bozo??" 😅

[@ladeene06]

A few years ago my husband spent almost a whole night fixing a bluejay birds nest one of our cats had sabotaged. We were rewarded with 5 very distinct bluejays sticking around . One very large bluejay even steals food straight from our very large roosters beak. Its hilarious the relationship a couple of our chickens have with the bluejays. Every day they interact. Love all the knowledge I've gleaned from your videos. I seldom say anything, but thank you. 🙏🏻

[@MkayKaye]

I had two Blue Jays that would call my cat to the backyard in the morning. She would come out and lay in the middle of the lawn. They'd playfully dive bomb her while she hunched down and chirped and watched them. They were so cheeky. It was a lot of fun to watch. It became a ritual.

[@1986Unlimited]

I know exactly what you mean when you find the Jays comical. We don't have Jays where I live but all the other birds and their daily interactions with eachother, around our bird baths make us laugh.

[@karlahorn1095]

I love how it seems the Jay's here seem to pick up every peanut figuring out which ones are biggest then take two, three if they can get them.

[@bobseagraves1743]

Mine test fit nuts to see how many they fly off with.

[@bluejay8345]

The bigger the peanut the tastier

[@johnjude2685]

In our back yard the blue jay is a close second to the hummingbird but we have our hands all year Wonderful vidios you are our favorite bird teacher Lady Thanks

[@lep23456]

And Melinda's painting was AMAZING!!! Simply gorgeous!!! Thank you for sharing that as well.

[@melissaannemccrae1695]

When that crow was sniffing around Blue's peanut!!!!!! One of my male Jays gets REALLY mad like that. It is the funniest thing ever : )

[@kroakie4]

I thought that was one of the funniest parts. Blue was miffed! 😆

[@keiththecarpenter5639]

At 8 minutes into the video.😊

[@barbaramorse1049]

The Blue Jays in my area (Upstate New York) have different markings than yours, and I’ve never seen them bobbing up and down like yours do...a “trampoline dance”? Such wonderful videos you have to share. This one brought back memories of watching a gray squirrel and a blue jay, spying on each other hiding their “loot” from the feeders...and then steal from each other. I would sit in the window and watch all this, laughing. Such good entertainment - better than television! Thank you for sharing!

[@laceysnow4048]

I have a red-tailed hawk in my area and I know when its around because the 7 blue jays that I feed will chase it away. They have also become very good at imitating the hawk's calls which they like to constantly do. I enjoy watching them after I feed them every morning. I have never seen, nor was I aware of, the sunning behavior. Wonderful footage of the three of them! I hope that someday I will get to witness it myself.

[@Catarinawon]

I love Lesley's accent, Minnesota? You Betcha. Her bird videos and narrating is soooo relaxing and informative. It shows us the little things we don't pay attention to until we see her videos. So I had to post it on Facebook too. and I hate Facebook. Watch them you will like her presentations no matter who you are!

[@christineborgatti3760]

I have been feeding the Jay's peanuts in the shell and they are hiding them in m y flower pots. I loved the sunbathing Jay's. I had some vultures passing thru and saw one sunbathing with its wings totally stretched out. Quite a sight.

[@parsons585]

Wish we had more blue jays! They are busy birds!

[@ricksmith1842]

We’re now dealing with 3 baby jays ruling over the feeder. Most of the time they allowed others to feed with them until one had the idea to shoosh other smaller birds away so they all were doing it shooshing! They are certainly cute to the hilt!

[@lauriemclean1131]

I greatly enjoyed the video. Blue jays always used to annoy me, as I always tended to see them as bullies stealing seed from the smaller birds. But even so, I did root for them in their constant battles with the thieving squirrels. 😄

[@terrynielsen7139]

💖💖 I Love all birds, but my favorite is the Blue Jay 💖💖👏👏 😁😁

[@royalblue2043]

Thank you.Ihave never seen such behavior in my encounters with these birds over the years.Amazing.Such personalities.

[@jennyd9543]

They are very funny looking when they are molting!

[@B.H.56]

I finally found a bird feeder that the jays can't empty in a day. But I still throw some seed on the ground for them.

[@marthahopewell]

Just recently I have noticed a jay landing on the banister of my second floor deck and then dive bombing the feeder hanging there so that it spills sunflower seeds, and then dropping down to eat them on my lower deck. So amusing!!

[@alisoneden]

I really like watching the interaction w/ the squirrel bandit

[@timeichenlaub458]

I enjoyed the entire video, but what I found particularly funny was that clip of that Sweet Girl Peanut Incident. I really don't know what else she tried to accomplish, other than trying to carry off two full-sized peanuts at once, which is very hard for any bird to do.

[@reneestarlight729]

I love blue jays they have such personality it was so amazing watching them and how u interact with the them wat a beautiful watercolor pic 😍she did a great job 🐦💙🐦

[@kroakie4]

Hermoso offering Abby the piece of grass cracked me up!!! 🤣

[@Dragrath1]

I have seen a lot of birds sunning themselves in our backyard Blue Jays, Cat Birds, American Robins, a Brown Thrasher even a Mourning Dove one thing I have noticed when they do this behavior it is usually associated with getting a bath soon after definitely seems like they enjoy it though. Birds all have so much personality I love them it is a pity that we can't stop the house sparrows from swarming the feeders without taking down but even then their are so many antics to watch!

[@MrsTracy-hs7tu]

In Delaware, We don’t see blue jays go bald! But they are adorable!

[@lisak161]

The dive bombing of the squirrel 🤣 My dog would love to be able to do that.

[@aidanmcferris9348]

I am REALLY enjoying your videos! Ive shared it with my 35 yr old daughter too, she learned the love of bird watching from me. Now we do it together! Her favorite bird is the King fisher! She grew up on out farm and we had a creek on the property. That is where she learned to love them!

[@yippee2000]

Indeed, I love how they bob their bodies up and down while making certain calls.

[@michaelsimko7694]

The one with Blue being mad at the crow was very funny. Scientists say Corvids are one of a number of bird families that can easily get to know people by their face and the location(s). Where I live, there's a lot of social, tame Herring Gulls and Ring-billed Gulls that enjoy handouts and try to grab food from people along the shoreline. Just like Corvids, Gulls are funny and entertaining. I usually get some good laughs while feeding them as they fight over food and try to claim an item as their own by walking towards it and loudly calling.

[@Sol36900]

I have never seen a bald-headed Bluejay. 😂😂😂

[@aknittinkitten]

We have jays here in Portland but they never come to my feeder. I do get lots of sparrows, juncos, and wrens. My favourites are the Anna’s hummingbirds that come by. One little guy lets me know when the feeder is running low on nectar by either hovering and looking in my upstairs window or flying around me when I’m leaving the house. There are several crow families as well, they come by to drink from the birdbath or to look for corn in the feeder. They tend to spend a lot of time looking in the windows and the bolder ones will caw for attention.

[@daisyviluck7932]

Those Jays eat right out of your hand 🙂❤️

[@emilyhailey9713]

I adore blue jays,favorite birds in my yard

[@mikearst2940]

Great video as always. I might have been one of the people who called it "leap-frog," after seeing five or six Steller's Jays on our deck, "playing," a few years ago. For a few minutes they hopped over the top of each other time after time, just like little kids playing leap frog. I only saw it happen once and I sure wish I'd had a mobile phone up and running to get video of it. It was hilarious. The jays are mostly gone from the neighborhood now due to some major clearcutting of trees (the crows took over). Before then there were a lot of jays and we got to see plenty of antics, including this one: They had us trained. A jay would light on a skylight when they saw us in the house. He or she would peck once on the glass-hard. That was the signal: "Give me a peanut now." We always did, and the next generation of jays learned it from their parents. Then came the clearcutting and we don't see them often. It was fun while it lasted.

[@davidgannon5388]

2:55 - Yes, I saw a turkey vulture sunning on the window ledge just across from my cubicle at an office. His wing's shadow on the floor was considerably odd. Best of all, even though he saw me, he didn't care when I walked up to within a foot of him for a better look!

[@kolorsoftherainbow4295]

HAHA TuVus LOVE to sunbathe, so much that some people joke about them being solar-powered!

[@soloist777]

I live in Australia and love birds! We have many, many odd, strange, funny birds here, eg kookaburras. Now I've heard of bluejays as in Toronto Bluejays but I have to admit this is the not only the first time I ever seen one but the first time I've seen how comical they are! They are truly wonderful. I can see why you're so enamoured with them. Thank you for the video.

[@jonist.pierre4599]

I had a family of jays in my yard last summer (mom, dad and 5 babies) they had so much fun when I would water the garden. I use a hoop trellis for my cucumbers so they would land on it to drink and Preen. But it had a lot of spring to it so they’d land and then hold on for dear life while it bounced back and forth.

[@moonbeanification]

I can relate to being annoyed when people invade your space ... I'll have to try wing-flickering sometime ;)

[@mph1ish]

I watched this a few months ago and it inspired me to hang a tray of peanuts from my bedroom window each morning. I sip my coffee in bed and watch the show! I will now pay more attention to the different features/characteristics. Also how hilarious are those sunbathers?? That bald dude! hahaaa Thanks for the fantastic footage Lesley!

[@amydason9332]

Oh Beautiful blue Jays ! Pretty Amazing Birds🌹oh I Love Birds 🌹Great video!

[@-Dog-]

Hahahaha, I just snort laughed at Sweet Girl trying to get that last acorn!

[@Grendelmonster8u]

Their bouncing, hopping and sunning is funny. The one sunning with his head leaning and beak open is hilarious. I have a family of Blue Jays but I don’t get to see these behaviors. I have a small deck and enclosure and the competition for peanuts is hardcore; the squirrels, Grakles and Red-Bellied Woodpeckers can all open the shell but the pigeons, Starlings, Nuthatches and Downy Woodpeckers all love the out of the shell ones. I’m at wits end trying to let them all eat...the Pigeons are the worst and have dangerous wings. When I try to scare them away it scares all the birds away. Also, I think my neighbors think my feeding them is responsible for the Blue Jays’, et al, noise in the morning. One Blue Jay has a broken wing, or so I thought because he could only hop but now he’s flying again though his wing still hangs. A Grackle stoke a peanut out of his beak. I don’t think he can handle migrating with this lame wing. It’s so hard to catch them. Perhaps if it had been mobilized it would now work better. I also have one bald one who happens to be the gutsiest at getting peanuts off my porch. Feeding birds is an expensive hobby. I’d like to go back to February before the hordes came but I like the Blue Jays. I have a lot of food left so I guess I’ll use it up and stop. 😢 I even chase hawks out of the yard which I feel is an obligation for creating this restaurant. Your videos are so well done and a pleasure to watch.

[@MHarenArt]

Until I found your channel I didn't realize I have my own gang of Blue Jays. They really do come around in a group, hang around for a bit, and then all leave at the same time.

[@francescamoore6262]

I really appreciate your film!So nice to know that someone else loves them as much as I do! I have lived here in the north country for 10 years. I have one that wakes me up in the morning like a rooster. Yet he also let's us know when to chase away the squirrels!

[@mariaweston5477]

I dropped a peanut for a squirrel. As it turned to get it, a blue jay zoomed in grabbed peanut and flew off!! So surprising and funny. Squirrel and I couldn’t believe it!

[@ablue5419]

I love blue Jays they are so cute I used to see some jays even one time I rescue one he was poison unfortunately where I live are people who are heartless monsters and dedicated their time to go around poison animals mostly birds.thanks for the video I’m joy see it . Blessings always.💛🕊

[@thumpersquid]

I would never get lonely in the woods with all these forest friends.

[@aidanmcferris9348]

That is SO funny that you call it "squeaky gate"! I had a cockatiel many years ago, and he made a noise I called the "squeaky wheel"! LOL

[@faithnicole2161]

I absolutely love blue Jay's, these videos are so awesome to watch. Thank you for posting them. They are so full of personality

[@angel22893]

I don’t think we have blue jays here in uk, but I do have a wonderful flock of crows who live near by. I love your videos because they are an escaped from the madness in the world at the mo. Your soothing voice calms me. You also encourage me to actually get out in the wild and see the beauty’s in the flesh.

[@catyear75]

“Sunning” - Hahahhhahahah! Cutest Thing Ever !

[@1jessebell]

I know this is an older video, but so educational! I have two blue jays that come to my deck every day for peanuts. I have been watching your videos to help educate myself so I don’t over feed or do anything harmful. In July my male Jay had a bald head so I thought he might be sick or young. Now I know, moulting! Perfect. Thank you!

[@fullercrowley]

Thanks, Lesley! I love your videos and they help me with my own backyard bird friends. :) At my house in Maine, the jays and a chipmunk compete over the peanuts. She's really fast, though, and can always get 2 at a time. The jays are more polite and take turns after she's gone.