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Bluejay/peanuts question

10 years ago

We feed the Jays peanuts in the shell We sit on the porch and throw them out to them, usually 4 or 5 birds. Question is, is there anything else they like besides the nuts, it's getting pricey, but we love to feed them! They also eat the black oil seed that falls from the feeders.

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  • 10 years ago

    Blue Jays are omnivores, meaning they eat a variety of foods. At feeders, they eat sunflower seeds, whole kernel corn, suet/suet mixes, and peanut butter mixes. When I lived in NY State, I wouldn't feed peanuts because of the price and I had Blue Jays all year round just by putting out sunflower, suet and peanut butter mixes.

  • 10 years ago

    I have a bird table/tray (platform on pole, screened to allow rain to pass through). In addition to a few seeds, I often put out (cut up) pieces of poultry skin and fat, fish skin, gristle, cartilage, fruit, older nuts and seeds, and sometimes bread. I have a baffle on the pole to keep rodents away. Sometimes I put out older butter or peanut butter. On the few occasions when I cook a ham or lamb, I freeze/save that fat (cut up) then later on make a melted, reconstituted "fat/suet block" that I put into a large hanging cage (in cold winter). The fat cage hangs from a tree about 40 feet from the house but in view of the window. The small birds can fit through the wire mesh, the woodpeckers can access the fat block from the outside of the cage. The jays can pick up what falls.

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