The best thing is to try and stay out of the area for a few days if possible. If they were to run into you it would be an accident. They may be loud and fly close enough to cause you to worry but don't. Interesting Blue Jay Behaviorsīlue Jays are extremely territorial, often diving at cats, dogs, and even humans who get near nesting and feeding territories. Sometimes Bluejays will refurbish the nest for their second brood.Īfter the nesting season in late summer and early fall these birds will travel in small flocks and family groups.Īlthough only partially migratory (mainly a permanent resident) sometimes flocks numbering over 100 can be spotted moving south. Both parents share in feeding the young birds.ġ - 2 broods raised each season. The young will leave the nest in about 17 to 21 days after hatching. She may leave from time to time to bathe and stretch. The male will feed the female during incubation. Incubation, or gestation period, last 17 to 18 days and is done primarily by the female although the male may provide some help. The female lays 3 to 7 greenish buff, blue, or yellow eggs with brown or grey spots. Choose a location that provides protection from predators, elements, access, visibility, and varying sunlight. Place the nesting shelf 10 to 12 feet above ground. You can try attracting these birds to nest in your backyard by placing a nesting shelf in a tree, or on the side of a garage or shed overlooking both open spaces and foliage. The nest is a bulky cup made of twigs, leaves, roots, grass, moss and sometimes held together by mud. I place peanuts (unshelled) on a platform feeder to keep these birds happy and to make it easier for the smaller birds to feed from hanging feeders at the same time.īlue Jay Eating Seed Pods from Bradford Pear Tree Blue Jays prefer larger foods like peanuts and are more likely to eat them than fighting for a single seed from the sunflower feeders. When feeding birds, I like to offer food types that are preferred by each individual species. Typically, these birds are vegetarians in winter and eat wild seeds and berries off woodland shrubs. Summer food consist of larger insects, grasshoppers, caterpillars, mice, bird eggs, and baby birds.Īlthough known to rob nest of eggs and baby birds, only a very small percentage of their diet comes from these sources. Their natural winter diet consist mostly of vegetable matter, acorns, beechnuts, seeds and berries. That can keep the squirrels from getting the Blue Jays food. The shelled peanuts can be offered in a Peanut Feeder These birds are intelligent and adaptable, they are quick to make a diet of peanuts suet and black-oil sunflower seed at bird feeders. Feeding Habits, What Do Blue jays EatĪt the bird feeder, what Blue Jays eat consist of a variety of foods.
These birds have the ability to raise and lower their crest as they respond to their surroundings. The bill, legs, feet, and eyes, are black. Hit Songs With Blue In The Title Reduce this list of songs to include only pop and rock hits and the biggest rock classics before 1980.The lower breast, belly, and vent area are off-white. If you think another song should be included, let us know. These are songs you know or may know, and not obscure album tracks. Song Criteria For This Page To be included on this popular songs list, a song with a color in the title must have received some measure of popularity since 1950, with a few very significant older songs. More Songs With Color Titles All the hits and more with colors in the title. That's When I See The Blues (In Your Pretty Brown Eyes) Kentucky Bluebird (Send A Message To Martha)ĭevil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss MollyĮlvis Presley With The Jordanaires And The Imperials Quartet Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue) I Call It Pretty Music, But The Old People Call It The Blues Pt 1 The Echoes With The Stephen Scott Singers (There'll Be Blue Birds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover Stan Freberg Featuring Jesse White, Music By Billy May With The Toads The Old Payola Roll Blues (Like The Beginning) They had to be split into five pages 1950s Shrink list to show only chart hit songs with Blue in the title Songs are in Tune Timeline order by date. Here is the extended list of popular songs with blue in the title. Popular Songs With Blue In The Title In The Sixties, 1960 to 1969
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