The Complex Calls of Blue Jays -Did You Know Birding? (Episode 4)
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- The 4th episode to the, "Did You Know Birding?" series, talks about the calls of blue jays and what some of them are used for.
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Thank You. I saw my first bluejay less than a month ago. I love your info.
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I lived in my midwestern home for 5 years without ever once seeing a blue jay. I put out peanuts and within hours I had a brood of blue jays. I have no idea how they knew.
Right exactly 😳 it's like telepathy
The blue bird borg :)
They reallyyy love peanuts 🥜😂😂 you won them over lol
That is so cool!
Unsalted Peanuts. No salt. Salt can kill poison them. Dont..
My favorite bird to see. They instantly make me happy. Their calls aren't beautiful but that bright blue and their personality makes up for it.
Idk why, but I find some of their calls very amusing...
Like little laser beams lmao
@@FastNCurious88I have to say, I agree that they are like little bird lasers!
I'm the same; mockingbirds also make me laugh!
Worth it to watch all the way to the end just to see Grumpy, typical toddler, throwing a tantrum, then looking around to see if anyone noticed!
0:40 - Mimicking
2:22 - Jeer calls
3:03 - Pump handle calls
3:37 - Intrapair contact calls
4:03 - Rattle calls
4:37 - Whisper song
5:04 - Fledgling/juvenile calls
6:10 - Body language displays
Thank you. So beautiful to hear this.
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Thank you for sharing this knowledge! Our jays in Southern Ontario used to mimic the sound of us hanging clothes on the clothesline. The wheels would "squeak squeak" rather loud as you pushed the clothes out further on the line, and before we knew it the group in our area was mimicking it. Such clever, funny birds.
This was beyond interesting; clear, concise, and very well produced!
Aww, thank so much :) Glad you enjoyed it. I really like this video a lot. blue jays are incredible birds.
LesleytheBirdNerd Where was this filmed at?
All clips in the video(except for the Red-shouldered Hawk clip) were recorded in Newfoundland!
@@LesleytheBirdNerd It is a great video, very informative.
Great video! I've been hearing the squeaky gate call for the past few months and finally know what bird it was from!
Thanks!
Glad the video helped
I had one do that on the fence right next to me. Quite a sound.
I just bought a house and the backyard trees are filled with blue Jays... At first they were shy but now when I sit in the backyard they land right next to me.... So beautiful, what a treat, and they don't mind me listening to music either.
Best Blue Jay video yet on TH-cam. Pure heart, intellect, and spirit shine thru a clear understanding of how to better understand jays. Keep up the good work!!!
Wow! Thanks so much for the nice comment. I'm glad you feel that way about this video. There really isn't much about blue jays on TH-cam and I honestly don't understand why. They are such incredibly interesting birds.
Happy Birding :)
Thank you for what may well be my favorite TH-cam video ever. I've always adored blue jays and have greatly missed their songs since moving to Seattle more than three decades ago (we have their wonderful cousins the Stellar's jays here). Blue jay vocalizations made the woods of my native New Hampshire all the more magical, just as they do all the woodlands they inhabit. I'll be watching this again and again.... Well done!
You are very welcome. I'm so glad you enjoyed. Btw I would love to see stellar's jays. They are closely related to blue jays if I'm remembering correctly. Thanks for the nice comment
I recognize these bird's calls as I thought these calls were from many different birds. Now I know the blue jays are the ones talking. They seem to be more friendly than other birds too. Blue Jays love peanuts and peanut butter especially . thanks for your videos I love them
Wow how amazing is this. Birdy lingo. These Jay's are absolutely gorgeous. Communication is really key and animals really are unique. Pretty interesting and certainly have alot of calls. Great footage and information.tysm
Great video, I always found the way blue jays communicate to be soo cute. Knowing the different types of calls mean makes them even cuter somehow. I love blue jays
Thanks :) I know what you mean when I started understanding what some of their calls meant it made it so much more enjoyable watching them. Blue Jays are awesome. Cheers.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing Lesley.
I've got a mated pair landing a foot from me now to eat peanuts. It took two seasons ( i don't feed in summer). I love it!
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Beautiful and informative video! I knew they imitated hawk calls but I've never seen one doing a Merlin! Again, always an interesting and amazing video!
Also, have you ever thought about doing a Q&A with your fans about you? It would be cool and you have a lot of subscribers who would probably be interested. I dunno, just a though!
Thanks a lot. That was the only time that I heard a jay mimic a merlin, haven't heard it since. Awesome birds. And yes I've thought about doing a Q&A video, I've been meaning to do one to be honest just haven't gotten around to it but I should really try to this year, maybe in spring or summer when the weather is better. :)
I've been observing them closely the last couple of weeks as a result of having a nest of them in my backyard. I noticed that around dusk, one will make a "clucking" sound as it flies through the air. In my mind, I imagined that the blue jay was on patrol flying around looking for possible predators before settling down for the night.
Thanks for this video. I often wonder what each call means and some of them I never realized were jays at all! I have been interacting with Jays since I was a kid in my backyard. I have observed them protecting their young, harassing cats who are minding their own business and defending nests. When you finally hear those early morning pump handle calls, you know spring is here. Birds are awesome!
Thank you! I adore blue jays and their calls!
I looked up and saw a blue jay make a crow call. I was astonished. I didn’t know they did that.
Blue Jay's are a super treat to watch and hear! ❤
Blue Jays r very interesting birds!! I like their calls, thanks for the video!😀
I have a pair right outside my window here in NYC who have been here for years,they disappear for months at a time, and they come back and screech as usual 😅 love them!
Fascinating! I have always been partial to jays, partially due the fact that my high school mascot (Jamestown, ND) is the blue jay. They are such beautiful birds, and your videos about them are so interesting and informative.
In Houston, TX our Blue Jays here mimic Red Shouldered Hawks very commonly! My girlfriend and I love your channel, keep it going!
I've been searching everywhere to find someone else who has heard their bluejays saying peek-a-boo. I love when mine do, and they will often repeat when I say peek-a-boo to them
Oh my gosh this was so informative. I have had the amazing please of watching these unique, beautiful, and intelligent birds for the past couple of years. As I started watching this video I put my phone outside when suddenly here comes a Blue Jay that apparently heard with great curiosity. As always..I am amazed. I use to only see 2 of them come every once in awhile to eat the peanuts that were put out for them BUT then they started coming more often..I believe then, they brought their little ones to the feast..lol oh how O wish I could share the videos just after they heard the sounds today..truly remarkable to say the least. THANK U!!
THANK YOU! I have heard that "squeaky gate" call for a long time but only today actually saw the bird that made it. I found your video while looking for jay calls to see if that was actually possible. I had no idea they were so versatile.
So lucky to have you making these type of quality videos!! Thanks as always!
Aww thanks so much. And you are very welcome, so glad that you enjoyed it
I live in B.C. and there are still guidebooks that say blue jays do not exist west of the Rockies. But they appeared here in the 1990s and biologists met with birders to confirm it and it was a really big deal. They've been living here so long now that their calls are part of the soundtrack of my life. I've seen blue and Steller's jays sitting near each other in trees. Apparently other parts of B.C. don't have them, and I told this to someone from another area and they said I was probably mistaken. But NOPE! I've been watching and listening to them since my youth. One sound I hear that I didn't notice in the video sounds sort of like, "chewy...chewy..chewy," or something like that. Thanks for another first class video.
I enjoyed this ! I have some that call in a questioning sound they make. As though they recognize me. It is not the loud call they normally do.
I know this may sound strange. They see me putting out peanuts . I go inside to watch when they get them and they look right at me, take the peanut and fly off. I sure enjoy seeing them. I hope to hand feed then some day.
Thanks for your sharing your passion for these beautiful birds!
I just loved the clip you got of Sweet Girl answering Blue's location inquiry 💞 🇨🇱🇺🇲
It's really cool how you name the birds!
0:38 the part where the blue jay mimics a informational video segment sounded just like a human no idea they could talk
My favourite episode yet!
I've always wanted to learn more about what they are saying. I certainly believe it is more complex than we realize. Last fall, I put peanuts on my deck. Some bluejays arrived to eat. I went out on the deck, and it was not the usual family. They retreated onto my roof. Then the usual family arrived and surrounded the deck, and there was sooo much chatter, including the "low threat" style of calls you mentioned. Then a member of usual regular family kinda said "watch this" and took a peanut straight from my hand. It's like there was immediate trust in this new situation for the new guys, confirming the low threat. Although others would not eat out of my hand, my presence didn't matter too much anymore, and they resumed picking the peanuts, even taking time to "weigh" them. But it was the vocal communication that astounded me - I was literally surrounded in chatter from them :)
Amazing! The way you described it seem like the jay was like, "Hey you guys are new, look at this, he's not a threat" and then showed the new jays that your hand can be eaten from XD They are one of the most intelligent birds. I love them so much!
TheBirdNerd indeed!
It was a very strange feeling - almost felt like being a foreigner not understanding the language and communication all around you, but you can kind of figure it out or get hints from body language, etc - natural even for humans. I wish I could have recorded it for further study, because they are obviously more intelligent than we give credit for.
They are much more intelligent than we realize! I was looking online, and I guess crows can understand water displacement to get food! Amazing! I hope further study goes into corvids!
Aww what an awesome experience reminds me of my own experiences with them over the years. For me, when a blue jay trusts me I feel like I've accomplished something big, haha! Love those jays! Incredibly awesome birds.
LesleytheBirdNerd I wish we had scrub jays and stellar jays in NYC. Those bird are beautiful like our blue jays.
I hear those exact Jeer calls very often but rarely spot a Bluejay in the trees. It's impossible to miss them when they land in my yard to feed. They're very loud and the blue ploomage is very eye catching.
Your videos are exceptionally well done .. subscribed! 🙂
Been intrigued by the blue jay for some time. Did not know they mimicked sounds .. wow!
Grew up in Wisconsin where cardinals and jays were prolific. Thought they were both "midwestern" birds. Then moved to Texas and am now seeing jays everywhere here!
Your blue jay videos TOTALLY give me a new appreciation of these fellows... thank you! :)
I heard a lilting, really pretty call today and wondered what bird was making it. Then, almost instantly, I heard one of the familiar Jay calls, coming from the same part of the tree. I think it was a pretty songstress, going from an almost haunting, soft lyrical tune right into a jazz composition. They sure can be interesting to listen to.
They have dialects, different areas I've lived in the calls are just slightly different. It's pretty cool
your blue jay videos are so beautiful, thank you for them. I've learned so much!!!!
No problem, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks a lot for the nice comment
Thanks, Lesley, for this fascinating Blue Jay video so beautifully filmed!
You are so welcome, and thanks so much for watching and for the lovely comment. Have a great Week ahead
I had no idea Bluejays were a lot like mockingbirds. Really great video.
Great video, wonderful footage as usual. It was especially interesting because I don't have "blue jays" where I live, but scrub jays and Steller's jays (both of which are also blue, which is why I had to put "blue jay" in quotes). Supposedly Steller's jays are most closely related to blue jays. Some of the calls in this video are similar to Steller's but there are also differences. Steller's jays are also great mimics and one thing I have observed is that sometimes one will come up with a new mimicked sound of another bird, and other Steller's will pick it up and as months go by, passing it on to each other, the call will morph into a sound that is unique to those particular jays. The latest "call" that they have gotten into mimicking is the whistling sound of a mourning dove's wings. By the way, you don't point it out, but at one point in your video the jay imitates a tree frog.
I have both a very beautiful Jay and woodpecker that come by every afternoon to pick on some cattle grain and dog food.
I love looking out the window while I wash dishes, cause I can watch them come up to the glass and eat, and it makes me happy to know that I'm making them happy with free food
Thanks for this channel!
I LOVE birds and birds watching.
Thanks Lesley, I am fixated on Blue Jays too! I like your focus!
Thank You Bunches For this Video. Very informative and I enjoyed it!
They are so smart and beautiful. Thank you.
You’re the reason why blue jays are my favorite bird to the consternation of anyone I tell lol
Blue jays are good mimics; they commonly impersonate Red-tailed and Red-shouldered Hawks, and Cooper’s Hawk and Broad-winged Hawk calls.
They do this to scare away other birds, or to warn other birds, or just because they have the ability to mimic other birds, they are like song bird parrots.
Beautiful video, thank you! I spend so much time (and money on peanuts!) for these guys. I adore just listening and, by observing and comparing situations, trying to get a glimpse of the dept of their language.
I keep searching for documentaires on jays. Thank you for the book recommendation, will buy it for sure!
Aww thanks. And you are welcome, so glad that you enjoyed it. By the way, I totally understand, I spend a lot of time and money on those blue jays, too. I'd love to have all of the money I've spent on them over the last six years right now, haha! I bet you will enjoy the book. It's nice to be able to understand them a little more.
Hi Lesley. I love birds too and the Blue Jay in particular. You know they really love those peanuts in the shell. Been feeding birds for about 25 years (black oil sunflower seeds, suet blocks and peanuts). I live up here in New Hampshire on the Canadian border. How the birds survive our harsh winters I don’t know. The Chickadees, juncos and nut hatches are so small but survive. Peace out ✌️
My favourite call is the clothesline sound but with so few in use these days you don't hear it as often anymore. I doubt if many people under the age of ?? would even recognize the sound of a clothesline pulley!
Also , it took me a while to realize that our Nova Scotia ospreys weren't suddenly overwintering here. It was blue jays!
I heard one make a hawk call today that was so cool I've been feeding Jay's for years and just heard it today!!!
I have on that makes eek aak eek noises when coming for peanuts. Love it
As always , a concise and very revealing exploration of a vastly misunderstood bird ! Lesley ,THANK YOU for your expertise and passion for our feathered friends (:
Thank you, Randy. Very much appreciate your kind words. Blue jays, like you said, are very misunderstood. Incredible birds that I have enjoyed for years now, don't have one issue with them. :)
Such beautiful birds
I have several blue jays around my yard and woods - I love watching and listening to them! Early this summer, a few Canadian geese were flying overhead. A blue jay was perched on my deck railing. The blue jay cocked his head to look into the sky and listened for a few seconds, then he perfectly mimicked goose honk. Blew my mind :) The blue jays in my woods frequently mimic (perfectly) the red tailed Hawk screech and the Red shouldered hawk call. I find the other birds know the difference - because they go about their business - unlike when an actual hawk is in the area and they freeze.
I love seeing all the new jays!! The whisper song is my favorite. So sweet!
They're so talkative! I've always wanted to know more about them, but in my experience they're among the most skittish of "common" birds. Just today I was sitting in my garage with the door open, and one landed sideways on a tree 40 in front of me, like a woodpecker. It pulled on the loose bark, paused, looked straight at me for a millisecond, and took off.
Really cool birds, and a great video!
That's true, they are really chatty birds I love that about them, and they are very skittish. Thanks for sharing your story of your experience with a blue jay the other day. Those birds are so interesting and fun, to my mind at least. I've witnessed a lot of neat things from them over the years.
Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the nice comment!
I had a bird in my trees the other day making a sound i didn't recognize. After two days, I realized it was a jay. The call had two parts; the first being a whistle that got higher as it reached the end. This was repeated several times and then followed with a quick burst of a sound. I found it very interesting
A very informative video. Blue jays are beautiful, and very intelligent. I've heard them make the jeer call, the pump gate call (which I call the rusty pipe call), the begging call, and a red-tailed hawk imitation. I knew the hawk imitations are used to notify other jays of a hawk nearby or scare off other birds when feeding, and the jeer call can be used for mobbing, but I always wondered what the other calls meant. There have been studies on crows and their intelligence (they can recognize human faces!), but I wish there was more done on their cousin, the magnificent blue jay.
Beautiful sound and Birds!
I know a old Doo Wop group early sixties..the blue jays..
Nice channel too❤️💋
I adore Blue Jays. They feed from one of my tray feeders every day and aren't aggressive towards any of my other birds.
I swear they sit in my neighbor's tree outside my window and do their whistle call to wake me up so I'll give them their in the shell peanuts. As soon as I open my curtains they stop because they knows I'll be downstairs soon.
The look the hawk gave when he got found out by the blue jays lol
I had noticed the wide and magical repertoire of blue jays and was delighted to see your studies on this.
We just heard what sounded like a hawk and I only saw a single blue jay! So interesting that they will do this!
I do agree with you! The blue jay still keeps me learning about them, they are an addiction to me!!
A very well done and informative video. I subscribed and look forward to more.
Ughhh that’s so cool. I was like “what is this bird that sounds sorta like a hawk but definitely isn’t a hawk 😂”
I enjoyed this video SO MUCH!!! It was so informative and had loads of great footage! Thanks so much for sharing! I could have watched lots more!!!
So glad that you enjoyed this video :)
Thanks for the nice comment
Beautiful presentation 👍
Blue jays are great, and starlings, too. The call named a rusty pump is what I think of two pieces of tool steel hitting each other. The starlings make a sound like a squeaky pair of scissors. There used to be a large number of starlings where I live, but recent times their numbers are way fewer.
Wow Thank You! I’m just starting to learn more and really appreciate birds. I’ve always loved them and want to know more so I can help them as well.
Amazing work. Thank you.
love that squeeky gate call(":
Blue Jay couple come to my backyard every day....when they come thay call each other..❤
Thank you. Great video.
I recently noticed that my favorite Stellar's Jay who does an amazing Great Horned Owl BARK and classic Hawk and Crow was mimicking ME as well. When I walk outside I make little noises to myself and my Stellar's Jay has been repeating that sound back to me. It's just the coolest thing ever❤️
Jays, Crows and Gulls! So much similarity in their calls! Other birds too of course...
I really love your channel, so wonderful to see such passion.
I have heard all these calls, but never knew some of them were the Blue Jays!!
I was just able to retire a few years ago and I started feeding the birds in our neighborhood I would crush up peanuts for them and they absolutely love it... I get a variety of birds and one of them is the blue jay and I had no idea he was the one making that screeching noise lol I always thought it was the black birds. That was so cool to learn and now I think he does that to summon the other birds lol I'm not too sure but they're actually very amazing birds
I havent seen a single Blue Jay in years. : / Until Thursday afternoon I saw 5 all at once flying from tree to tree staying together. It made my day :)
Wow! I love birds🐦
Lesley, I lived in northern Idaho, for 20+ yrs in the forest. I had a large bird feeder and one gray squirrel. I noticed the squirrel spent most of his days carrying off my peanuts, sunflower seeds and small bird feed out of my feeder. So I fixed it with a tin stove pipe that he couldn't crawl up.
Soon I had Nuthatches, Chickadee's, and 2 pair of Stellar Jays that visited daily. The squirrel began collecting the sunflower seeds on the ground but got no peanuts or cracked black walnuts that he loved. I sat out every morning watching the feeder and one day, after I loaded it for the stellars, I watched them deliberately drop the nuts out of the feeder, where the squirrel waited. They were feeding the squirrel, knowing that I would replenish the nuts the next day!
Over a time I got busy and although I continued to feed them, I didn't have time to watch them for about a month. When I did, I noticed my little gray squirrel was actually a brown squirrel! His coat had changed colors by eating the black walnuts and the oil had penetrated his fur had changed color, by him bathing himself after eating the black walnuts.
Just thought I would share that. He returned to gray again in the summer. Oh, and I also had wild sunflowers growing along the tree line.
I moved a few years after that to a small city and there are no birds here except for a family of robins who come in the spring. I am now talking to the management of my apartment building to plant flowers, cherry trees and lilac bushes to attract birds and insects.
All because of the birds that use to come to my feeder and your wonderful bird videos.
Thank you so much!
These are the most common bird calls I hear in my back yard. I knew they had a few, and I can recognize the alarm call. I didn't know it was also intrapair. One thing I didn't hear was a few calls that might just be native to my area, were something shrill that sounds sort of like "ch-chee" and a gravelly, higher pitched "meedic/madic" sound. I had no idea one of the common calls was actually that of a Merlin!
Very interesting video. Thanks!
The ones at my house will copy Cooper's Hawk calls, make my chickens scurry for the shrubs - then go after the layer-pellets. Smart buggers!
Thank you, absolutely love blue jays.
Jays are one of the first I became introduced to. I love them too!
New subscriber here. Thank you for covering Jays. They are as fascinating as crows.
Excellent video!
The Jays in my neck of the woods (central FL) often make a 'Peter, Peter, Peter' call.
I liked the video it was very interesting now I'm more educated about my batch of 8. The ones that hang out here i notice have 3 different calls that i never heard on your video, it sounds way more complex than these ones
Great info! Thanks so much!
Thank you so very much for replying. I will look forward to more of you videos!
You are welcome. :)