I adore my jays. I switched feeding strategies in my backyard to a trough-style feeder to make extra room for the little birds and prevent the Jays from bullying everyone else out.
One cool thing I've noticed is the Jays acting like a (very loud) lookout alarm for all the other species. The Jays scream, and everyone runs away and hides. I've seen it when the hawk comes poking around, and once when a cat found its way onto my deck.
Hell yeah, little Jay, get it!
They're such ugly little vultures under all that floof, I love it
So mean!!
I've never seen this in real life, but I have seen like half a dozen sparrows chasing around a hawk that was stalking one of their nests. It was interesting to see the cooperation. "Not today, Satan!"
I don't know where OP is, but here in Massachusetts, we have no sales tax on groceries:
https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/massachusetts/sales-tax-exemptions
Hahaha, thank you I needed that laugh
Omfg I can't 🥰
I can feel the sneeze being restrained here
Oh great, now I'm over here googling pictures of various owl feet 😂
Given what I've seen, I'm also gonna go with my neighborhood buddy, GHO
What an adorable perfect family 🥰
Creepy freakazoid under cute floofy camouflage? Yep, that checks out