How to Attract Blue Jays to Your Yard
Here are some simple steps to attract blue jays to your yard and property:
Peanuts. Scattering your yard with raw, whole peanuts will attract blue jays to your yard like nothing else. Offering them in a platform feeder is helpful, but any flat surface will do. Set out the peanuts and then watch the blue jays technique in acquiring the treats. Blue jays will stuff a whole peanut down it's throat easily, pick up another and then take off.
Sunflower Seeds. Fill your platform feeder with sunflower to seeds to attract blue jays. Blue jays are rather large birds, so a bird feeder with a larger than average perching area is most comfortable and attractive to blue jays.
Oak Trees. Plant an oak tree to attract blue jays. Blue jays and other birds use this popular and hearty tree for food.
Sticks And Twigs. Blue jays make elaborate nests and require quite a large amount of building materials. Make small piles of short twigs and sticks around your yard and watch the blue jays take advantage of your generosity. Blue jays also use use wet grass and mud as materials for their nests, so if you offer your twig and stick piles after a recent storm, you will double your chances of attracting the birds to your yard.
Water. A roomy birdbath with plenty of fresh water for drinking and bathing will attract blue jays to your property.
Blue jays mainly eat a diet rich in vegetables and insects. Acorns and berries are also important components of their varied diets. Suet is also a desired food, so filling your bird feeder with it will improve your chances of attracting blue jays to your yard and property.
Blue jays are interesting and formidable birds. They reside year round in their territories. If you would like to attract these fantastic birds to your yard, follow these suggestions and enjoy your new blue friends!
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13 Comments
Post a CommentI love blue jays and they came to my bird bath this morning. Two of them! I think they are beautiful and I am going to buy peanuts right now!
I hear them close but they dont come to my yard all the squirrels do
I have some extra if anyone wants some :) They love my yard. Great article
Great idea. Helpful tips. Blue Jays are cool. Thanks.
I had a ton of them in my yard in Oklahoma. I haven't seen one here yet.
Interesting tips.
Great tips, thank you.
I raised a couple of baby bluejays once who were found in the back yard out of their nests. They were wonderful little birds! Full of personality and beautiful.
I Love blue jays, they seem to come often...I guess it is our water fountain! Blue jays and hummingbirds, they are top on my bird list.
I love birds! Thanks for the very useful info!