BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 25, 2020
I don’t know what I’m talking about here, but that’s never stopped me before. Something is going on with blue jays, and the topic is ripe for wild speculation. Blue jays are swarming my backyard, shoving each other off the perches and gobbling sunflower seeds like there’s no tomorrow. It’s probably not a jay invasion from Canada. Can our local jays sense that it is going to be a tough winter, so they need to cache more food than usual? Maybe. Ultimately, I can only guess at what’s going on. I’ve got more jays mobbing my feeders than ever before. They’re resorting to aggressive tactics more often, such as imitating hawk calls to dissuade competitors. Even the squirrels seem intimidated. ~ Bob Duchesne