4 Things You Didn't Know About Blue Jays

There's Much More to Blue Jays than Pretty Feathers

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Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:53 Smart Food Caching
02:30 Why do Adult Blue Jays Flicker their wings like a baby bird?
04:59 Female Blue Jays give Food offerings, too
06:33 Are Male Blue Jays 100 percent faithful to their mate?

Do Female Blue Jays give their mate food offerings, too?
How Smart Are Blue Jays?
Do Blue Jays cheat on their mate?

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[billko]

It's always so special when you post, since you've been "semi-retired" from YouTube.

[llamalover]

We are so fortunate. Please don't feel pressure to post often (or even at all), but know we do appreciate you, you wonderful nerdy birdy.

[joem]

Blue has changed his relationship status to 'It's Complicated'

[sherriianiro]

These birds are some of the most loyal and intelligent which is why they are survivors.
One had a nest parallel to my bathroom wiindow in a blue spruce.
One night, a huge thunderstorm hit with gale force winds and hail. I watched in horror while the tree swayed and the momma got pounded by the hail, believing she would fly away and abandon her nest of five, but she stood firm and sat there with her eyes tightly closed and did not move. When the storm passed, she peeked underneath her as if to make sure the little ones were ok, and went back to sleep.
From that point on I have major respect for these birds for their unwavering devotion and protection of their young!

[johnt]

Lesley- Your sensitive knowledge of birds is really profound. Thank you for continuing to share this with your fans! It means an enormous amount!

[Keivan.Bagheri]

You have no idea how much you're missed when you're not around Lesley.. 💜

[mitchmatthews]

Welcome back, Lesley! You and your videos were truly missed! Big hug from Detroit!

[AlainSTO]

Your Blue Jay videos helped me sway a lot of my family's opinions of them. And now my mom loves leaving peanuts out for the ones in her backyard

[SpeakingTheTruthsAndPeaceOut_V]

Welcome back, Lesley. It has been a long while! 🥹

[turkeyrunfarms]

Awe! They are beautiful- and loud! They wake me up every morning yelling for me to fill the feeder.

[Frank-rj]

I hope the ornithology community appreciates the detailed information your years of videos have produced. There should be an award for this type of dedication. Thank you, Lesley.

[joem]

It's a pleasure to see you post again, Lesley.

[SpunkyStreams]

It’s September in the northern new jersey foothills, and that means we have had some BIG visitors flying through our territory. The hawks are migrating south, which strikes terror into my heart- along with the hearts of our Vatican of Cardinals. This year I fought hard to make life easy for the cardinals, and now we have many new sweeties.. very proud of Conkey & Ruby and how far they have come.. it has been the greatest joy of my life on earth.

Yesterday I was outside pacing back and forth to try and discourage the hawks from stopping by our territory. There were so many hawks yesterday that I was forced to take off from work in the afternoon! I looked up and my heart dropped as I saw 4 hawks.. heading this way. But then, something spectacular happened. 6 Blue Jays banded together at the frontline in the pine trees and they made a STAND. 🪖They were all chirping their cute little monkey call, but with 6- it was intimidating enough to deter the hawks from coming our way. I watched in tears of joy as the cardinals came around me and were also looking up happy at the Blue Jays. We all lived to sing another day.. thank you for showing love to our sweetie blues! 🕊️😇

[vickibowen]

Oh, how much I really do love Blue Jays! They're such characters-- and so smart. And very beautiful, striking blue coloring... 💙💙💙 Thanks, Lesley

[markbacon]

Leslie, in a world of anger, turmoil and unrest, your posts are a beautiful retreat. You bring beauty and gentleness to our lives. Thank you for sharing these lovely birds with us.

[dustin]

I love putting out peanuts for blue jays.

[MegaLivingIt]

Good grief! What's with the funny jumping? So cute.😀

[jerryodell]

The birds are amazing creation. My Daughter keeps several feeding stations in the back yard and I get to sit in my outdoor rocking chair and watch their antics along with the chipmunks, squirrels, occasional blond fox who always stays back by the woods, woodchucks, the deer under the apple trees snacking on the fallen apples or reaching up in to grab one from time-to-time, woodchucks, and other critters that come in. Whenever, a raptor (mostly hawks and owls) shows up everyone of them stop and not move or flee for cover.

[screddot]

My favorite bird from my favorite Bird Nerd.

[gordturnbull]

My kitten says two paws up! Nice to have you back.