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#10   Test the Smarts of Your Backyard Jays with This Fun Memory Game,More info:audubon

Many jays, including the Blue Jay, store food for sustenance in harsher seasons. Over a few months, an individual bird may cache nuts, insects, even worms, in several thousand spots. And relocate nearly all of them as needed. While some of us humans have trouble even remembering where we put our keys.
Jays seem to see, and remember, the physical world in exquisite detail.

If jays—like this Steller’s Jay—visit your yard, here’s a puzzle game you can play with them. Each day, preferably when the jays aren’t watching, place a dozen peanuts in different parts of the yard. They should be visible, but scattered—one on top of a stump, one next to a rock, below the birdbath. You get the idea. When a jay arrives, watch how long it takes to find the nuts.

#9     The jay,More info:saga

For those of us who have mature trees in or near our garden the visit of a jay is a possible treat, particularly during the autumn and winter. Throughout this period jays are forever active in search of food.

Autumn is a time of plenty and jays take advantage by playing ‘seek and hide’ with as many nuts as they can find. Jays are adapted to carrying acorns, their throats readily expanding to cope with a half-swallowed load of up to nine acorns at a time. They will travel up to four kilometres from their own territory to look for acorns and are responsible for the spread of oak trees to new areas.

Of course it isn’t their intention to help the dispersal of the oak tree, though it is in their long term benefit, but they couldn’t be more helpful even if they tried, even burying the acorns in leaf litter which serves as a perfect compost for germination.

The intention of the jay is to store food for the forthcoming winter season and it is reckoned that a busy jay will hide about 5,000 acorns in the autumn.

Jays are very wary of people and usually avoid close contact but if you would like to get close-up views of them then why not take advantage of their kleptomania by putting out peanuts for them? From my experience jays prefer peanuts to acorns.

While I was trying to get this photo of a jay I baited the area for weeks with peanuts and had jays visiting regularly. When I switched to acorns they shunned the spot for many days until I re-trained them!

#8   Blue Jay,More info:ebird

Familiar but stunning jay found year-round throughout most of eastern North America. Bright blue above and pale gray below with a fluffy crest. Also look for black necklace and black and white markings on the wings and tail. Pairs or small groups travel through mature deciduous or coniferous woodlands, often revealing their presence with loud, harsh “jay” calls. Frequently visits bird feeders, where it is often aggressive towards other birds.

#7   Canada Jay,More info:audubon

A hiker in the north woods sometimes will be followed by a pair of Canada Jays, gliding silently from tree to tree, watching inquisitively. These fluffy jays seem fearless, and they can be a minor nuisance around campsites and cabins, stealing food, earning the nickname “camp robber.” Tough enough to survive year-round in very cold climates, they store excess food in bark crevices all summer, retrieving it in harsh weather. Surprisingly, they nest and raise their young in late winter and early spring, not during the brief northern summer.

#6   Florida Scrub-Jay,More info:birdsna

#5     Jay,More info:british-birdsongs

#4   Blue Jay,More info:thespruce

The blue jay, with its bold coloration and even bolder personality, is one of the most common and familiar backyard birds in the eastern United States. Its intelligence and willingness to visit feeders make this member of the Corvidae bird family a welcome guest for many birders, and it’s easy to find blue jays in your yard. This fact sheet will not only introduce you to blue jays, but help you learn more about their unique personalities and how to entice them to visit your yard.

#3   Steller’s Jay,More info:audubon

A common bird of western forests. Steller’s Jay is most numerous in dense coniferous woods of the mountains and the northwest coast, where its dark colors blend in well in the shadows. Except when nesting it lives in flocks, and the birds will often fly across a clearing one at a time, in single file, giving their low shook-shook calls as they swoop up to perch in a tall pine.

#2     THIS JAY IS EVOLVING IN A VERY, VERY WEIRD WAY,More info:wired

THE SCRUB JAYS of California’s Santa Cruz Island really love a good peanut. “It’s like crack to them,” says Katie Langin, a biologist at Colorado State University who probably knows these birds better than anyone else. Working with Scott Morrison of the Nature Conservancy, Langin started visiting the peaks and valleys of this wild island in 2007, baiting jays with nuts to trap and tag them for her dissertation. Before she came along, what researchers knew about the island scrub jay came from observations in just a handful of places. Much of this rock is inaccessible, but Langin had a helicopter.

#1     Brown Jay,More info:audubon

At dawn in the woods of south Texas, a shrill, explosive pyow! pyow! announces a flock of Brown Jays. These big birds, much larger than our other jays, are almost always in flocks, and their calls can be heard for more than a quarter of a mile; but they can be surprisingly inconspicuous when they stop calling and slip away through the trees. Common in Mexico, Brown Jays crossed into Texas in the 1970s; they are still very scarce and local there, found only on a stretch of the Rio Grande below Falcon Dam.

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