I've never shot one and in fact they are protected in MA.
My question is what do ppl think about these birds....
Beautiful birds or A-Holes??
Will
My question is what do ppl think about these birds....
Beautiful birds or A-Holes??
Will
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Blue Jays
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I think they are protected nationally. I hate them. Walk outside and they start screeching like heck. They are bullies. They are in the same category as crows to me. Smart as heck. If one were to shoot them they would have to be very sneaky.
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I wouldn't shoot them, I like them actually. Plus they are protected. Unless the animals being a nuisance I leave them alone and let them live.
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They seem to be “A Holes” of the bird world. Very aggressive and always picking in other birds. I’ve held a grudge since my youth when I was watching a mocking bird build its nest and then raise the babies until a Blue Jay found it and killed all the babies. It was quite violent.
Kenny
Kenny
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ALL the Corvid species are A-Holes. Around here we have primarily the "Scrub Jay" and when they are being rowdy they get dealt with.
past few years they are really thinned out due to the AKA Bird flu that has effected many of the corvids be them Crows, Mockingbirds, Jays etc ...
past few years they are really thinned out due to the AKA Bird flu that has effected many of the corvids be them Crows, Mockingbirds, Jays etc ...
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most birds are not a real problem to the average person to justify killing them unless theyre flocking on 'your' property and shting everywhere ... exceptions are sometimes crows have pecked and ruined melons in my garden, thats a nono lol ... mr marauder will say hello to them ... and hawks actively attacking my chickens - i wont hesitate ..
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This is an alternate view point, not mine. Please don't respond with the classic Saturday Night Live line "Jane you ignorant s1ut"!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MugGDaC0SY
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They are evil, noisy and bully birds. I moved into an old house 40 years back and slept upstairs. This bluejay would perch itself on a limb a few feet from my open second story window and scream at me at 3:30-4:00 in the morning before it was even light out. I had to get get up at 7am, to go to werq, so did not appreciate being woke so early nor kept awake by the constant screaming. So figured, as I had just moved in, the previous renter must have been feeding him. So. I started leaving it food and the screaming stopped, for a few days, then started back up again even though the food was there. I threw one of my new tennis shoes at it one morning to chase it off. When I went down to get my shoe out of the back yard when I got up it was gone. Grrrr... evil nasty bird. Finally after months of loosing sleep in the fight with nothing werqing I pulled my trusty, 1920s octagon barreled pump action, .22 and shot the evil bird off the top of neighbors 4 plex at about 40 yards then turned around, pumped another round into the chamber, and shot it's mate, off of a power line, at about the same distance. No one out that early, just before dawn, in the morning and the .22 shorts were not a very noisy round so no problem. I went back upstairs and slid back under the covers for a few more hours of peaceful sleep. Bluejays are very territorial and I never had another problem. I was young and stupid back then but had very good eyes and was a very good shot as well.
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From my observation point in Michigan (616) the blue Jays and crow population is just starting to bounce back. I saw many more of both 40 years ago when my Sheridan Blue Streak was working hard in the 313, but I saved my Silver Jets for the grackles, starlings, sparrows.
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^^^^^^^^ that!!!
Covids are straight up assholes. Our variant which is the western scrub jay have plenty of food(I have bird feeders) but they actively raid nests and kill hatchlings especially the humming birds and smaller golden finches. They even go after adult golden finches once a while. I certainly don’t like them.
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Round here BJays are bully’s to the small birds on the feeders But we put soot out for woodpeckers mostly red headed and redbelly. I can tell you this woodpeckers don’t put up with BlueJay nonsense. I get a chuckle hearing the blue jays screaming for his life with one of the woodpeckers a foot behind him. So when confront they high tail it out of there. We don’t shoot them too much entertainment.
Red
Red
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I'm in the beautiful bird camp.
Blue jays around here are bullied big time by the slightly larger Grackles. Jays will pick on the smaller Cardinals and try to do the same with the wood peckers but the peckers quickly put an end to that with a stabbing peck and the jays are gone... Bottom line, all birds have a pecking order.
Granted, they are very loud birds. Maybe almost as smart as Crows/Ravens. I have a few around here that will perch 5' away from where I'm working in my garden and wait till I throw them a nut and catch a peanut in mid air. They will warn me with loud Caws when tree rodents are invading my bird feeders and know enough to stay clear of my bait station backboard till rodents are disposed of.
I like them, they eat insects veraciously. Have seen them pick horn worms off my hot pepper plants. They catch/eat the moths that lay eggs/worms that eat my garden. They eat roaches/beetles/slugs/etc.
Yup I like them, and find them entertaining also, and very useful around the garden.
jmo
Blue jays around here are bullied big time by the slightly larger Grackles. Jays will pick on the smaller Cardinals and try to do the same with the wood peckers but the peckers quickly put an end to that with a stabbing peck and the jays are gone... Bottom line, all birds have a pecking order.
Granted, they are very loud birds. Maybe almost as smart as Crows/Ravens. I have a few around here that will perch 5' away from where I'm working in my garden and wait till I throw them a nut and catch a peanut in mid air. They will warn me with loud Caws when tree rodents are invading my bird feeders and know enough to stay clear of my bait station backboard till rodents are disposed of.
I like them, they eat insects veraciously. Have seen them pick horn worms off my hot pepper plants. They catch/eat the moths that lay eggs/worms that eat my garden. They eat roaches/beetles/slugs/etc.
Yup I like them, and find them entertaining also, and very useful around the garden.
jmo
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They are beautiful A-HOLES!!
Had a flock of about 20-30 come through this weekend. I had to go inside before they broke my eardrums. The noise was terrible.
Had a flock of about 20-30 come through this weekend. I had to go inside before they broke my eardrums. The noise was terrible.
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Absolutely beautiful a holes.
When I returned from college for summer break, A lifetime ago. I was sleeping in the bedroom right below my parents, who were upstairs.
Every morning at dawn, a Blue would wake me up screeching in the backyard.
After a couple mornings of being woken up way too early, I set up my 124 next to the basement door. Oiled the hinges on the door.
The next morning he started screeching. I calmly grab the 124 slid the door open, and dropped him, screeching stopped.
through the window of my room I heard my dad say from up above, thank you. I’ll never forget it. I miss him.
mike
When I returned from college for summer break, A lifetime ago. I was sleeping in the bedroom right below my parents, who were upstairs.
Every morning at dawn, a Blue would wake me up screeching in the backyard.
After a couple mornings of being woken up way too early, I set up my 124 next to the basement door. Oiled the hinges on the door.
The next morning he started screeching. I calmly grab the 124 slid the door open, and dropped him, screeching stopped.
through the window of my room I heard my dad say from up above, thank you. I’ll never forget it. I miss him.
mike
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very interesting!!! Didn’t know they can be trained as tree rat alarm!!! I don’t shoot them anyways but still don’t like them for hunting down humming bird nests. I’m switching my feeder to peanuts anyways for the wood pecker and jays love peanuts, they empty the feeder quick.
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Don't think they realize it, but the ones using my birdbath are on permanent double-secret probation. All others come in for a quiet bath or drink, these screech and scream on the way in, during use and on leaving. Not sure why they're so noisy but sometimes when they see me on the porch they get real quiet. Maybe it's the Wildcat in the rack beside me or the look in my eye, either way guess they figure not to push it.
WM
WM
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I have always admired them.
Never shot one.
Even when I was a kid shooting 4.4 billion sparrows with my Daisy Model 98 lever action BB gun.
Never shot one.
Even when I was a kid shooting 4.4 billion sparrows with my Daisy Model 98 lever action BB gun.
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They Suck the big one. I have a new $90,000.00 silicon roof on my building and those B@$+@%*$ pick at it in nice patterns for what reason I do not know, but I have to go up and slather the spots with new silicon to re-seal them. Pests I say.
Patrick
Patrick
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Holy crap!
Let your anger guide you to the dark side!!
lol, jk I hope you find a solution!!
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