\nDo you know about Blue Jays? They are nasty, aggressive birds. Now, I have bird feeders in the back and from my office I can see a host of different types of birds feeding. Two Blue Jays, a mated pair I am guessing, have been coming to the feeder for the past six weeks. When they arrive the other birds are leary because Blue Jays are always ready to fight.<\/p>\n
\tA lot of seed falls to the ground because birds eat like pigs. So the Blue Jays will often go down to the ground to eat. <\/p>\n
\tI have other livestock around too – millions of squirrels some of which are black, some of which are black with rust-colored tails, most of which are grey; some lizards that you can see occasionally, possums, raccoons, rabbits and cats, dozens of cats prowling the backyards of everyone in my area looking for prey<\/p>\n
\tToday the two Blue Jays were on the ground feeding under the bird feeder. They were within two feet of each other. I had a taken a pause from writing my new novel (Trev<\/em> ) when from under my neighbor’s fence a cat launched himself at one of the Blue Jays. This cat was lightening fast — he was a young cat, sleek and smooth — and he caught one of the Blue Jays, ripped it up with his claws and then, holding it in his mouth, trotted off to one of my neighbors’ yards.<\/p>\n \tIn all my years of watching these cats prowl around I have never seen them catch a bird. Field mice, yes; squirrels and birds, no. But today I saw what a cat can do. That Blue Jay didn’t have a chance.<\/p>\n \tI look out my window now and that other Blue Jay has come back. I wonder if this bird feels the loss of the other one — does it have a nest with little birds? And where is that cat? Away somewhere munching on the dead body of a bird not fast enough to get away.<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Guest on July 3, 2012, 10:01 pm<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Dice Pilot on July 3, 2012, 11:23 pm<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Skinny on July 3, 2012, 11:44 pm<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Guest on July 14, 2012, 11:15 am<\/p>\n Do you know about Blue Jays? They are nasty, aggressive birds. Now, I have bird feeders in the back and from my office I can see a host of different types of birds feeding. Two Blue Jays, a mated pair…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-on-the-home-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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