We still have 5-9 Blue Jays-but they are well fed here with corn meal and
seeds.  Not as many as earlier this winter when we had 15-20 at times.

Cynthia Crawford

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On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ted Levin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> My jays have been gone for 2 weeks. I think they were driven by weather to
> find food farther south. Usually, when they court you can hear them, if not
> see them. They are quite conspicuous. I'll ask my birding friends in MA,
> LI, and NJ if they are experiencing an influx of jays.
>
> Some years when a lot of robins stick around, once the dried berries,
> hollies usually, are gone, and the weather becomes cold and snowy, they
> withdraw from their northern outposts.
>
> Ted
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Wendy Jane Sichel wrote:
>
> For weeks there have been many bluejays loudly and voraciously eating
> regularly at my feeders, and they have vanished in the past 2 days. I
> looked up online and yes, their courtship season is said to begin in
> February)or so I read). Can any of you "real" birders corroborate this?
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