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 *Creature Kinships and Natural Affinities* Animal and Nature Paintings, Portraits and Prints www.creaturekinships.com MORE PHOTOS and ARTWORK: http://pbase.com/creaturekinships EVEN MORE PHOTOS: https://www.flickr.com/photos/33836164@N03/ BLOG: http://creature-kinships.blogspot.com/ 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? > **************************************************************** To post > messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your > e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list > owner: [log in to unmask] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based > archives and subscription management are available at: > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html > **************************************************************** > > > **************************************************************** To post > messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your > e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list > owner: [log in to unmask] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based > archives and subscription management are available at: > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html > **************************************************************** **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************