Participant Photo: H, I, Jay, K – L???

We have two very large clans of jays (approximately 30 birds) who do their best to eat us out of house and home by consuming copious amounts of peanuts all year round, in addition to the numerous other feeders we have. During the recent bitter cold snap, they flocked to the extra blackoil sunflower and cracked corn I piled on one of the old bluebird boxes, which apparently had been leased by a juvenile red squirrel. What the picture doesn’t show is the numerous other jays in the privet who are jockeying for a fine dining experience.