Blue Jays Like Peanuts

Recently, we bought this decorative and useful wreath for feeding peanuts to the birds and squirrels. Typically after we fill it with peanuts, it will be ignored for a few days, but then the blue jays find it and they empty it in a few hours. When we just put peanuts out on the ground for them, often they would pick up one, then drop it, and pick up another one, drop that one and finally choose one and fly away with it. We think they were gauging the weights of each one in order to get the heaviest peanut.

We have relatives in Texas that have a few pecan trees in their yard. They had an interesting learning experience with jays. Both people were collecting pecans. They each had a nice pile that they left on the ground while they ate lunch. After lunch, one of the piles was noticeably smaller. Well, accusations were made about stealing from her pile to add to his pile. Protests of innocence. Eventually they noticed who the thief was - yes, a blue jay.