[NatureNS] Too many Blue Jays??

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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:18:34 -0300
From: "Anna Gardner" <annagardner.ns@gmail.com>
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Our daily influx of Blue Jays has recently increased from 2 to 6 and
it seems that our other regulars (nuthatch, goldfinches, purple
finches, various sparrows, etc) are less in evidence. The constant
traffic of 6 jays swooping down is pretty busy and we're wondering if
that might be the reason that the other birds have been around less
often.

We have various yard feeders; platform type, nyjer tube, a square one
that closes the ports if squirrels stand on the perches, and others.
The Blue Jays eat mainly peanuts in the shell on the platform feeder,
but recently have started hanging like acrobats off all the feeders
(except the nyjer tube) and pecking away at the sunflowers and mixed
seed when the peanuts are gone. Are they disruptive to the other
birds? Should we stop feeding them so that they'll leave?

Thanks for your input.
Anna Gardner
Black Rock, Kings Co

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