The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Blue Jays are medium-sized ranging in length from 9 to 12 inches. That’s my favorite spring and summer bird. Then again about the woodpecker, one was pecking on my wooden siding several weeks ago-seems rather early in the season.I see bluejays constantly taking egg shells out of my compost pile. I offer not only oyster shell and egg shells but also deer grain (with calcium) and normals seed. We ALL do this intuitively. “But when I was 10 or 11,” he told me, “I had a Benjamin pump-up pellet rifle, and my grandmother in Arkansas paid me a nickel for every blue jay I shot on her farm. We give them crushed oyster shell from the farm store instead.For what it’s worth, Deborah, we’ve been giving crushed eggshell back to our chickens for years.

Partners in Flight estimates a global breeding population of 13 million, with 87% living in the U.S. and 13% living in Canada. In the Spring, when I prepare my potting soil, I also add course vermiculite for drainage. “I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. I think the main problem would arise if an egg accidentally broke in the nest box, and they discovered the tasty insides!One year we had a squirrel who repeatedly visited our deck to nosh the white paint off a bench. He also nibbled our bristly coir welcome mat all winter long!Hilarious. In this scenario, New England’s maple syrup industry will become a memory as oaks and hickories replace today’s mix of maple, birch, and beech trees. Tomorrow, I will go to the feed store and buy some crushed oyster shells. Sometimes it starts pecking around five in the morning. The expandable throat and esophagus of a blue jay can hold up to five pin oak acorns or three larger ones from white oaks, and the bird typically collects one more nut in its bill before departing. The wing and tail feathers are bright blue with white andblack bands. Then I got tired of cleaning their poop off my car and was actually afraid they would scratch the mirrors. They were trying to rid the neighborhood of the competition, I guess.

DEMONS!well I have given these nasty birds all forms of calcium as I said , oyster shell, egg shell, cage bird grit, cuttle bones etc.Oh, Diane, what a sad tale. Most of the nuts left beneath the trees were parasitized by insect larvae and worthless.The foraging blue jays, she explained, held an acorn with their feet and hammered the nut’s cap with a closed bill until it came loose. But blue jays have a remarkable vocal array, including what I consider one of the prettiest songs in the bird world. The upper parts are bluish gray and brightest on the rump. Listen live at 8:30 AM EDT Mondays, to the replay Saturday morning, or stream the podcast anytime. Would they have been less likely to take a taste of a porch painted bright red or black, for instance? Before you pluck and rake, consider wildlife, the health of your plants and your own right to relax For wild creatures who are not destroying their palate’s with synthetic ‘food’ like engineered snacks, etc, (read Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. (One feeder that really does work is the Yankee Whipper—designed by the Droll folks up in Connecticut)—with its collapsing, weight-sensitive perches. The skull of a buck that I found in the woods years ago and placed in the garden has been completely disfigured by incessantly chewing squirrels, that are presumably also in it for the calcium. Version 2.07.2017. I also heard the rat-a-tat-tat and was looking around trying to figure out WHAT that was.

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