What Is The Best Bird Feeder For Blue Jays

November 29, 2024 Post a Comment

What is the best bird feeder for blue jays

Feed. Blue jays enjoy nuts, especially peanuts–whole or already shelled. They also like common bird feed like suet, cracked corn, and black oil sunflower seeds. However, blue jays will need to feed on a platform feeder or a large tray because of their size.

What do blue jays eat the most?

Diet. Omnivorous. Most of diet is vegetable matter (up to 75% of diet for year, higher percentage in winter), including acorns, beechnuts, and other nuts, many kinds of seeds, grain, berries, small fruits, sometimes cultivated fruits.

Do Blue Jays use bird houses?

A closed house with only a tiny hole for an opening will draw birds that nest in tree crevices rather than branches. Blue Jays favor a big airy platform to an enclosed box. Anytime is a great time to make a bird house to allow birds to adapt to the area quickly. An ideal time, however, is in the autumn or winter.

Why wont Blue Jays come to my feeder?

Use Large Bird Feeders Blue jays are among the larger songbirds. Because of that, they can't always use bird feeders designed for songbirds. Those types of feeders are often too small. If blue jays feel that a feeder is too small or unsteady, then they won't use it.

What is a Blue jay friendly feeder?

Peanut wreaths are one of the best Blue Jays feeders to use when you want to have your birds work a bit for their food! Just fill the wreath from the top with whole peanuts. The metal wiring is strong enough to hold peanuts in place but flexible enough that jays can pull them out to eat.

Do Blue Jays eat the entire sunflower seed?

Blue jays and chickadees hold sunflower seeds in their feet, and hack a hole into the shell with the tip of their beak. When blue jays “swallow” a whole seed, they're actually putting it into their throat pouch to hide for later.

How do I attract Blue Jays to my feeder?

Blue jays will also visit feeders for suet and sunflower seeds. Another idea: These birds love to eat acorns, so on your next fall walk, gather some up and offer them at your feeder. In addition to nuts and seeds, they may eat fruits, insects and frogs. Birders can also attract blue jays with birdbaths.

Do Blue Jays recognize humans?

Studies show Blue Jays remember human faces, and if the birds take an interest in you, they might follow you around.

Do Blue Jays eat squirrels?

They'll steal feed from squirrels, nuthatches, and woodpeckers, but it is a rather uncommon occurrence. Blue jays are opportunistic. A majority of their diet consists of acorns, nuts, seeds, grains, and fruits. Insects become an important part of their diet during the breeding season.

What brings Blue Jays to your yard?

How to Attract Blue Jays

Mealworms, fresh or dried.
Suet cakes, shreds, nuggets, or suet butter.
Sunflower seeds of any type.
Cracked corn or whole corn kernels.

Where do Blue Jays like to hang out?

Blue Jays are naturally forest birds, and large trees provide them shelter and places to nest. If you are not lucky enough to live near the woods, then I'd recommend planting some native trees and shrubs in your backyard.

Why do birds not like Blue Jays?

Their bad rep may stem from their territorial behavior. Blue Jays are fierce birds that will protect their food sources and nests as a loud and aggressive group. When banding together, these blue and crested birds are able to chase away much bigger birds.

Why do birds throw seed out of feeder?

Birds throw germinating seeds from the feeder Wet bird seed may clump together and be hard to eat. If bird seed gets soaked through it may germinate and start growing. Birds will not eat germinating seeds. Birds will throw such "bad" seed out of the feeder.

How do you become friends with a Blue Jay?

Offer the Blue Jays their favorite foods.

Peanuts (preferably shelled)
Black and striped sunflower seeds.
Elderberries.
Cherries.
Dogwood.
Acorns.
Suet.

What time of day do Blue Jays feed?

Although birds feed throughout the entire morning, they feed the most during late mornings, reaching their peak at 10 AM.

What is the best bird feeder for cardinals and Blue Jays?

Triple Tube Feeder Begin with a tube feeder to welcome cardinals, finches, chickadees and titmice almost immediately. Those species seem to recognize the shape of the feeder, and their presence attracts other birds. Set out this Perky-Pet Triple Tube bird feeder to provide multiple birds a spot to perch and eat.

What food should I put out for jays?

Jay Feeding JAYS HAVE QUITE A VARIED DIET of nuts, seeds and insects but primarily feed on acorns from the oak tree. They have been known to feed on nestlings and other very small mammals. IN THE GARDEN, consider using peanuts and odd scraps form the kitchen.

Do Blue Jays like sunflower seeds?

Blue jays prefer to eat their food from tray and hopper feeders, or another flat raised surface. Their robust bill can make quick work of peanuts, acorns, sunflower seeds and even suet.

How long do blue jays live?

The oldest blue jay studied by researchers in the wild lived to be 17 years and 6 months old, most blue jays live to about 7 years old.

How do I feed my jays but not squirrels?

Squirrels love birdseed (as well as nuts, sunflower seeds, fruit, and corn), but they don't favor everything that birds eat. So stock your bird feeder with such fare as safflower seed, nyjer seed, and white proso millet, which squirrels don't care for and they'll likely head elsewhere for their next meal.