RE: [cayugabirds-l] blue jays

[Deb Grantham]

Thanks, Geo, I’ll pass that along.

Deb


From: Geo Kloppel 
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 8:51 AM
To: Deb Grantham ; CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] blue jays

Hi Deb,

The Blue Jay is a “partially migratory” species. If you google “blue jay 
migration” you’ll get lots of hits that attempt in a few words (or a few 
paragraphs) to explain what this means. The persons who asked you to find out 
why they aren’t seeing Blue Jays this winter might get something (if not 
satisfaction) out of this one:

https://birdwatchingbuzz.com/do-blue-jays-migrate/
-Geo



On Mar 2, 2023, at 10:48 PM, Deb Grantham 
mailto:d...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hello,

I’ve been asked by someone else to find out why they aren’t seeing blue jays 
this year.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] blue jays

[Geo Kloppel]

Hi Deb,

The Blue Jay is a “partially migratory” species. If you google “blue jay 
migration” you’ll get lots of hits that attempt in a few words (or a few 
paragraphs) to explain what this means. The persons who asked you to find out 
why they aren’t seeing Blue Jays this winter might get something (if not 
satisfaction) out of this one:

https://birdwatchingbuzz.com/do-blue-jays-migrate/

-Geo


> On Mar 2, 2023, at 10:48 PM, Deb Grantham  wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>  
> I’ve been asked by someone else to find out why they aren’t seeing blue jays 
> this year. 

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[cayugabirds-l] blue jays

[Deb Grantham]

Hello,

I've been asked by someone else to find out why they aren't seeing blue jays 
this year. I actually saw more around this winter than I've seen around here 
(Sheffield Road, Ithaca/Enfield town line) in a long time.

Any thoughts? Do they really follow the acorn crop? Avian flu?

Deb



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[cayugabirds-l] Blue Jays Migrating

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

As my computer was booting up, from above the screen I could see Blue Jays 
Flying overhead. I started to count and counted 32 of them. They have very 
characteristic flights can't be mistaken for anything else. While the Blue Jays 
were heading south a flock of a dozen of Cedar Waxwings flew directly north.
Yesterday also I saw quite a few flocks of Blue Jays heading south.

Meena

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[cayugabirds-l] blue jays

[Susan Fast]

This morning I encountered, in a smallish tree behind a house at the east
end of Burns Rd., a flock of 22 BLUE JAYS.  This general area, for some
reason, has a lot of these jays throughout the year, although groups of this
size appear later in the Spring.  There were some jayyy calls, no bobbing
that I noticed, and 2 birds alternated singing the toolool and wheedelee
calls for a while. (Behavior and calls as described in Stokes, Guide to
Bird Behavior, vol 1.).  They are apparently getting primed for the
upcoming courtship season, although today's encounter is 2 weeks earlier
than my notes for past years indicate.

 

Steve Fast

Brooktondale


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[cayugabirds-l] Blue Jays

[Annette Nadeau]

This morning Blue Jays seemed to be everywhere on Burns Road in Brooktondale. 
For a few minutes, there were 19 BLUE JAYS perched at the very top of a tall 
oak tree. Many were giving the same two-noted vocalization, along with a sound 
reminiscent of a Crow's comb call but quieter and more rapid. They were also 
joined by one Starling. I don't know what it was all about, but it was fun to 
see and hear.

Annette

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