Was having a conversation with co-workers about birds today, and it was brought up that a few years ago, they were plentiful, however, none of us can remember the last time we saw one.
Has anyone seen any? Did they die off or something?
Please share widely!
Saw a couple in my yard just a few days ago. They’re around. But I agree that there seem to be fewer than in the past.
We have a hummingbird feeder, so plently of them. Woodpeckers, Cards, everything.
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p>However, no blue jays.
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p>I’m glad someone has seen them though.
check out Sy Montgomery’s ‘Birdology’. It’s a pretty good read, and I learned things about Crows, Pigeons, and Chickens that I never knew.
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p>I live in the city but often see and hear Blue Jays, Cardinals, Robins and many other varieties of birds. There are hawks that hunt around here too. I wish we had Hummingbirds! I love to watch them zip out of a tree and zip back. I’ll see plenty when I’m down the Cape in August.
And this other weird bird we only hear but never see – sounds like a toucan or something… Pretty sure toucans aren’t indigenous to the South Shore.
and we have lots of Hummingbirds on the Hummingbird feeder. We also have lots of Hummingbirds attracted by my Mimosa Tree down the Cape.
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p>We even have had some Orioles this sumer hanging by the waterfall. The Hummingbirds have mainly been the Ruby-throated Hummingbird but we do get solid colored green Hummingbirds which I have not id’d. I’ll try to snap a pic.
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I love Hummingbirds! It’s been a pretty good birding season down the Cape. Have you been the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary? They have bird tours and birding expeditions. It’s really amazing the number of species that make a pitstop on Cape Cod.
There’s another place in Brewster (Cape Cod Museum of Natural History)which has some cool birds as well. We have a lot of finch which I jokingly call the “Dennis Finch”
I have been trying to snap pics of them but the point and click cameras just don’t cut it, even blowing them up.
I’ll have to check out the Brewster Museum.
And well worth a visit
But it hasn’t been back and I don’t hear its distinctive call. Same thing for cardinals this year.
We do see more of them when we fill our bird feeder though – LOL. Also, if you throw peanuts in the shell in your yard consistently, you will sprout blue jays.
cute little fuzzy blue jay babies… one almost drowning in the bird bath, actually had to scoop one out, avoiding his screaming dive bombing parents who clearly did not appreciate my efforts.
I remember many in suburban Essex County 10 years ago.
…most Blue Jays are up in Toronto playing baseball!:)
I see them all the time in my neighborhood here in Watertown…
Lovely to look at, but total bastards, by the way. Always bullying the smaller birds.