The Blue jay is a slow flier and an easy prey for hawks and owls and will scream if it sees a predator within its territory. There is also a high-pitched jayer-jayer call that increases in speed as the bird becomes more agitated. One of the most distinctive calls of this type is often referred to as the "rusty pump" owing to its squeaky resemblance to the sound of an old hand-operated water pump. Like other corvids, blue jays may learn to mimic human speech.

You sir, are a genius!

How flattering!

Atleast it's not a piece of [censored] crow.

I have often observed the Blue Jay imitating larger birds of prey such as the Osprey.


...you're not fool'n me!

Crows are actually MUCH smarter than Blue Jays.

Piece of [censored] crows often chase off birds of prey and seagulls like to [censored] on your car. Birds of prey also like to feast on moldy chums.

This one is being torn to pieces by a SMALL bird of prey...

Like that one you're holding proudly in your avatar?

There's no mold on it, i wiped it down with lysol first!

I have seen Blue Jays eat dog doo and other undesirables, now I know they eat Chums too.

I thought you licked it like a frog, hoping for bufotenine but getting worms instead.

BJ sez

"George, when I catch that chum I will hug him, and squeeze him, and love him".

Blue Jays are found back east, or in Toronto. They're like the sawed-off kid brother of the Steller's Jay, which you find around here.

They can darn sure clean out a bird feeder in a hurry. It seems as tho as soon as one shows up all of his friends come to dine as well. Pesky bass-turds.

I keep offering to give one of them a "third eye" but the wife wont let me.

I believe that they are a protected song bird.