I bet your jays think you have the best bird feeder around! LOL! To other party who has feed out, allowing jays to feed too, Blue Jays are migratory birds and can carry parasites, viruses, and bacterial infections from around the world. I'd hide my feed inside a coop or pen, and feed my water fowl in the morning and later afternoon.
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM in Michigan
On Friday, April 25, 2014 6:33 PM, "sidesaddle5@yahoo.com" <sidesaddle5@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Mice and blue jays in the same post... Another "put your coffee down before reading further" story coming up!
I have quite a number of bluebird boxes, and have to go round each spring and remove any wood mouse nests put in over the winter. So, one spring my Lab and I were making the rounds. I had one box, stuffed full of leaves, that needed additional repairs, so I pulled it up and carried it the short distance to the house. When I pulled out the nest, it turned out to be occupied! The mouse tumbled out and skittered around my feet with the Lab in hot pursuit--including trying to follow the mouse up my pant leg! (Yeah, I *did* do a bit of a strathspey...)
Where are the blue jays in this story? Well, there was more than the mouse in that nest. There were a handful of little pink jelly-bean mice in there too. I hesitated over what to do with them, then put them on the bird feeder table. The blue jays thought that was a wonderful snack! (And the Lab, for the rest of her life, LOVED checking nest boxes, always hoping!)
Rhonda
STOP CORPORATE ABUSE--BAN ALL GMOs!
Mice and blue jays in the same post... Another "put your coffee down before reading further" story coming up!
I have quite a number of bluebird boxes, and have to go round each spring and remove any wood mouse nests put in over the winter. So, one spring my Lab and I were making the rounds. I had one box, stuffed full of leaves, that needed additional repairs, so I pulled it up and carried it the short distance to the house. When I pulled out the nest, it turned out to be occupied! The mouse tumbled out and skittered around my feet with the Lab in hot pursuit--including trying to follow the mouse up my pant leg! (Yeah, I *did* do a bit of a strathspey...)
Where are the blue jays in this story? Well, there was more than the mouse in that nest. There were a handful of little pink jelly-bean mice in there too. I hesitated over what to do with them, then put them on the bird feeder table. The blue jays thought that was a wonderful snack! (And the Lab, for the rest of her life, LOVED checking nest boxes, always hoping!)
Rhonda
STOP CORPORATE ABUSE--BAN ALL GMOs!
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