How To Tell Blue Jays Apart: The Quickest & Easiest Way
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- 🔴How to tell Male & Female Blue Jays Apart ▶️ • How To Tell Male And F...
One of the most asked questions I get is “how can you tell individual Blue Jays apart?” In this video, I will shine some light on the variables that make it possible to them apart from one another. If you are a keen observer and have the time to invest in getting to know your jays you should have success in how to tell Blue Jays apart as I do.
🔴A bird I’ve known the longest- The Blue Jay ▶️ • A Bird I've Known the ...
👉Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Each Blue Jay has different facial markings.
02:08 Are all Blue Jays the same color blue?
02:44 Are male Blue Jays larger than females?
03:23 Do Blue Jays have personalities and different characteristics?
04:52 Each Blue Jay has different sounding calls and sounds.
05:42 Ending and my closing thoughts
06:19 Shop Lesley the Bird Nerd
06:27 How to tell Male and Female Blue Jays apart and an all about the Blue Jay video
👉Commonly asked questions:
Are all blue jays the same?
Do all Blue Jays look the same?
How to tell the difference between Blue Jays?
Are male and female bluejays the same?
Blue Jay comparison
Blue Jay Identification Tips
How to Tell Blue Jays apart
Help with Blue Jay Identification
👉Intro and Outro song:
Juneberry Junction - Chris Haugen via TH-cam Audio Library
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Wow! So interesting! Now I know! Thanks!! I appreciate the sharing! 💙
To walk in a forest with you would be glorious! Much Love ❤️ 🏴
We have a large flock of blue jays around us that we have fed for years. They seem to recognize my husband who is the bringer of the food! He was working in the garden the other day and not paying attention to them. He started hearing this loud thumping from the gutter of our porch. There were two blue jays "plucking" the mesh gutter cover which caused the loud noise. Both were bent forward and staring at him while thunking the gutter to get his attention. Those two would not be ignored! He had to stop and feed them! It left us in amazement.
Haha, in their eyes, your husband was not doing his proper job!
😁 That relationship is so special. Thx for the story. I fed the birds and squirrels for many years, but can't any more since moving to an apartment. Your story took me back. Thx for what you do.
It really is a very special relationship. 🐦🐣🦉
When the peanuts are gone, mine won't let me forget to replenish. When the red bellied woodpeckers are in town they don't either. They pound the house. Gotta lovem
I have a finch that will sit on my front picture window sill when the bird feeder is getting real low on seeds!!!! He's letting me know yo fill it up !!!
How exciting!! I have this also and also feed blue jays and also keep falling down on the job!
I’m from East Tennessee…lived here all my life. I know bears like you know blue jays. When people ask how I know which bear is which, I tell them the same way know my dogs from each other even though they’re the same breed. It’s the time you spend…that’s all.
You amaze me
That is awesome. Spending time certainly helps
Sometimes one of the Bluejays that visits my feeder, mimics the sound of a red tail hawk that drives off other birds just because I think they want the feeder to themselves. I started to call it hawk due to its hawk call before it comes. I have a family of them living in a patch of woods near my house. Thanks for the videos, I find them educational and know I know how to tell them apart.
I've heard jays in my yard imitate a hawk too!
Me too😊
Same! I also saw one once imitate a starling it was annoyed with (I don’t know the name of the sound, it’s the harsh squawky one). It’s like it was cussing him out in his own language
I've heard that, too! I've actually checked to see if there was a hawk nearby because my Jay's have got the sound down pat! 😃
Today's is my mom's heavenly birthday and her absolute favorite bird was the Bluejay. Thank you for posting. You can really see the difference between their little beaks in the side by side "mugshots" of them😂💙😂..so cute!!
Oh my goodness what timing for this video. I hope your mom is smiling :) And I know hey? Those little beaks really are different, haha! Silly birds :)
@@LesleytheBirdNerd yes they are so cute and different. I saw your post on FB about your sweet kitty. Hope you are doing ok💙
ahahaha "mugshots" 😆😆😆 💗💗
Happy birthday in heaven to your mother. ((Hugs))
@@LesleytheBirdNerd can really tell from bluejays ☝️
Lesley, God bless you, girl. I never thought to look for the differences, but of course they're there! I'm so grateful this world includes people like you. So much love and respect.
Thank you :) I'm so glad you enjoyed finding this out about our feathered friends.
We all love the beauty of birds but when you’re able to identify the personalities of the “regulars” that visit your yard it opens up a whole new world of amazement.
oh do it ever. I have so many pet friends now lol
@@LesleytheBirdNerd I have more pet friends than human friends, but that’s ok. They don’t complain about the food I serve them and they never ask to borrow money. 😁🦜🐦
Have been feeding the birds for over 50 years , learned alot , BUT I learn more than I thought I ever would from YOU ! THANKS FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO !
Wow, Kelly you are so welcome and thank you very much :)
One of the hardest parts for me when bird-watching trying to keep binoculars still because sometimes I try to look at details and it's so hard to see them because I shake a lot.
Yea it is hard for sure
Jess, get a tripod. I'm in a wheelchair on my deck and it helps tremendously. I have one mounted on my powerchair.
@@tymesho good idea.
Yes same with me trying to take pictures.
@@terrilynn27allen88 yes! it holds my iPad as well. Amazon has them.
Just when I think I can't ❤️ your videos any more you come out with an even better one!!! Thanks for the tips ...now I will be spending my free time trying to identify my Blue Jays and come up with my own names for them .😊
Aww I love that, thank you. ❤️ I sure hope you begin to see the differences, eagerly awaiting to see a comment from you saying that you recognized one or two of them :)
your channel is one of the things that has helped me realize that animals have rich internal lives and personalities just as we do! ty so much for sharing.
Aww I love that so much. I'm glad there are people who can see the things I see in these birds :) You are so very welcome
It is incredible that you can identify birds based on their characteristics and individual voices! I'd say that you are an honorary Blue Jay! 😄
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful tips! I can't wait to try to identify my neighborhood Blue Jays! 🐦
Honorary Blue Jay is a title I'm A-ok with :) I hope you have success with beginning to see the differences that are there with those silly brats.
Thanks Leslie now I can enjoy birds on an even deeper level. And it's so rewarding. I can better distinguish each bird as an individual (after a while) even in other type birds. I have a lot of Cardinal families, we feed them I'm trying to name them. The grandfather is Red and his wife is Scarlet. I know corny names but after this long I can't change them. Thanks again for those gorgeous close-up pictures of the most beautiful bird in our backyard. Love and Peace
Oh goodness. I never took the time to tell the difference. They are such wonderful little creatures. I love their community like life.
Perfect timing! Thank you for this video. I just decided to look closer ! I have many blue jays in the area. I am now feeding birds in front and back yards. Sometimes 5 will show and the types of calls are just amazing. Im falling for these beautiful and smart birds!!!
Aww I'm so glad you enjoy those jays. I know how you feel, I fell for Blue Jays very quickly, so full of interesting behavior and fun personality. Thank you for watching
I share/recommend this channel highly. I'm a novice, and Les has always been kind enough to answer my questions.
Aww Thanks so much for the kind shoutout :) I can't always get to all the comments but I try my best. Have a great Sunday
Blue Jays are my favorite birds along with Cardinals, Pigeons and Cockatiels. LOVE em!
This is so lovely Leslie 🕊💖🙏
This video brings beautiful tears to my eyes👏💖👍Blue Jay and Cardinal are both the chorus & the verse in the soundtrack of my youth.👏🕊💖 Thankfully the Oyster Catcher & Scoter live here on the west coast but (ssshhhhh) it’s not quite the same🤣😂
Thank You so much for sharing the beautiful relationships you’ve won with these fabulous birds.👍🙏💖
Aww I'm so glad that you enjoyed this little video. Thank you :) 💖
Okay, I live in an area with a lot of mature trees around my yard. In the mulch beds around the back yard I have planted smallish trees that have grown a lot over the past two years. Lots of birds live in the yards and wooded area around mine, but not so much in my yard because I’m pretty active in the yard gardening, watering, picking up. When I come out to the deck in the morning to put out peanuts or tree nuts for the squirrels, I hear the blue jays calling to alert each other that the goodies are coming. But they are camera-shy! They hide in the foliage of my trees, dash out to grab a nut, and then go back into the foliage. They don’t linger enough for me to get a good fix on what they look like! I do think I have three or four blue jay visitors.
I just posted a video about Steller's Jays and got many commenters calling them Blue Jays, I'm thinking many people don't realize they're actually different birds. Thank you for this great, informative video! Big thumbs up! 👍👍
I'm waiting 😁👍! Love bluejays 🐦🐦! I have them at my feeders most of the year in Florida 🏝️
I love my Jay's. I definitely can tell the difference between the ones that regularly come into my yard. Their voices vary as well. I just love birds ❤️
That is so true, their voices and everything is unique to each :)
I know the ones who call me when they want their peanuts...
A flock of 3 stays year 'round and those on Spring or Fall migration make my feeding grounds a way-point. They're tolerated by the regulars but are easily spooked by any movement I make as I watch from the front window. There's a 6" x 6" wooden platform on the railing, just outside the front door. The regulars prefer coming to it for p-nuts. I love the way they cock their heads and bounce along the wrought iron railing to fill up! But...the squirrels are also on watch and I have to send them scurrying back to the ground or tree.
Several Northern flickers visit my peanut feeder, but I can't tell them apart. They had babies in my dead pear tree, and when the babies fledged, they had their full adult plumage. I could only tell they were babies by the innocent look in their eyes. But I can tell a baby call from an adult call. It really is exciting and fun when I know one of the babies is visiting.
I think it's awesome and amazing that you know them so well, even when you can't SEE them, Leslie! Thank you for educating us so brilliantly and as always, for your beautiful videography!
Thanks a lot and glad you enjoyed
Love this video, Lesley!! I have noticed differences in “my” jays, but sometimes they move so fast it’s hard to tell. I do have a “fussy-pants” like Sweet Girl, but more so with the peanut picking. I counted 14 pick-up-and-drops with one peanut selection, and I was trying so hard not to laugh!😊💙
Hahaha too cute, they are funny to watch. I laugh so much at my jays sometimes, the things they do is just so adorable. Thank you for the nice comment. :)
The family that we consider are welcome neighbors come daily, but you are correct, they fly in and out very quickly.
My partner and I are enthralled with your channel. We have a family of Jays that have been visiting daily for a few years now. It started with one visiting me in the garage and then it sat with my partner on his steering wheel for about an hour or so. We took it as a blessing and so we feed them daily. We have dogs though so they fly in, get their peanuts, and go. When I'm out walking, they call out and perhaps I'm imagining, but I feel that they are signaling that they are coming or thanking us for the food. As long as this family is here, I wish to be a good steward for them so any suggestions to enrich the relationship would be much appreciated.
You are an incredible person that has built incredible relationships with your Jay friends♥️ you and your Jay friends have definitely inspired my girlfriend and I to really start finding all the different bird species in the city we live in and when we go to our hidden lake house and meet new critter friends there. We love your channel so much ♥️
Awe Keith that is so nice to read, really happy that you and your girlfriend get to spend time doing that together. Thank you so much
Thank you dear Lesley so much! I have 5 Bluejays feeding @ my backyard feeders for 6-8mo's now. (Along w/other birds)
Thanks to your kind video about how to tell who's who I'm determined to watch more closely!
You can do it and best of luck to you
@@LesleytheBirdNerd thank you Lesley I can really tell the difference 😊
Fiona catching them in the air is magnificent! I've never seen such a thing w birds 😍
You must know you're a significantly especially chosen individual on this 🌎 whom we are grateful to experience and learn from
:) What a nice compliment, thank you. Blue Jays are really good at catching peanuts in the air. All the other jays I know can do it too but Fiona prefers it only that way , haha! Fun birds.
Gorgeous Jays! I have a group that nests alongside my property in a large hedgerow, and now I’m going to try to get to know them more individually. “My” Jays are generally quite sweet, and share the seeds I put out for all the birds who visit, who are mostly mourning doves, cardinals, wrens and a nice little group of red headed woodpeckers.
As long as the seeds hold out.. everyone gets along just fine! Thanks for helping us all be more aware of these little marvels 🤗
Blessings!
Your video was a big help and interesting. I was sitting outside today observing our resident Jays and all the different sounds they made. I'm trying to remember who is who.
I'm learning about the protected Scrub Jays here in FL. We are building a home and they have to check the land for nests before clearing it. Thanks for sharing! 🐦
Ah but they move/hop/drop/hang so quickly and all over the place! Btw, grackles certainly have beautifully coloured head/neck feathers when they catch the light!
It's cool to think how you probably have a unique neural network you have built up over the years that streamlines how you see each bird!
I never thought of that before, that could very well be :)
Blue Jays are so pretty. And now that I learned how to tell them apart, this will make watching them a lot more fun. Thanks!
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This is wonderful! Knowledge is power. 💙
Fascinating video, thanks for the info and for the wonderful pictures!
Leslie, I don't know how I found you but I'm sssooo very thankful for you. I've been watching you for a while and enjoy your bird knowledge. I was brought up in a conservationist type family and truly enjoy the Jay's like you. How ever I use my time in crafting that is dear to my heart too.Besides all our daily family things. There's never enough time. God bless.🙂
You are very observant. I am so impressed with your learning to know each one's characteristics. Amazing. I love watching my birdies. This morning, a juvenile Mockingbird and a juvenile Cardinal were on my back step at the same time. The Mockingbird cocked its head sideways, making observations learning its surroundings. I am so thankful they attended my feeding station. The Bluebirds are working on their second brood. There are two different Cardinal families. Each one seems to only have one offspring. The Chickadee family has been coming to feed, sometimes 5 at a time. I am so thankful for our birdies. Thank you for your wonderful videos. They are such high quality. Your narration is lovely, too. This is Memorial Day. I give honor to the many soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for our freedoms in the USA. 💚🙏❤️
I just can not get enough of the Jays! I love them all so much!
Awesome video, Leslie.
That totally helps Lesley. Happy birding! ☮️💗
What a lovely way to spend a bit of the day.
Cheers
Wow this is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your insights with us! 💙
What lovely footage of the blues. You are so blessed to see these birds every week.
Thanks to your videos I have a few families of Blue Jay's coming to my property in Florida daily to visit and get their peanuts. I call them daily and they come. I know their different tones and calls and am trying to develop visual differences.
They do so have different personalities. They are very loved.
That is awesome!
The videography here is beautiful beyond words-I am stunned every single time I see a Blue Jay, and to see all these unique individuals here side by side is honestly breathtaking. My partner and I only recently started getting seriously into birding and she has been getting many new species around our house in the suburbs-the most of exciting of which are these guys, who started coming around when she started putting out whole peanuts! We are convinced that they look out for us coming outside in the morning and let each other know that food is coming, and it is amazing to see them coordinate their efforts to get the peanuts!
I stumbled across this looking up how to tell male from female, and boy did I get so much more than I could have ever hoped. Thanks so much for making this, and please wish us luck on getting to know our Jays! 🥰
I love your videos! They're so wholesome and it makes me happy to know that someone out there is so intensely connected with nature :)
Great video, this was super helpful! I try to employ similar methods to differentiate my own daily group of 8-10 Blue Jays whom I feed every day. For the last month or so, however, about half of them are molting, and have lost all of the feathers on their heads! It's so funny, they look like little blue buzzards LOL! I also have a large daily group of Cardinals, who I'm also trying to identify individually (harder to identify than Jays, but possible). My daily group of Red Bellied Woodpeckers had a bunch of babies this season, but I can't tell yet if they're male or female, as their heads are still solid grey, and they haven't turned red (male) or half-red (female) for me to distinguish their gender yet. Awesome video, Lesley, thanks for sharing!
So wonderful to read that! I'm glad. I can definitely see how it would be extra challenging right now to tell the difference between your molting jays. Haha! I can do it with mine but it requires more scrutiny. That is wonderful about the red-bellies having such a good year. Pretty soon those head will turn and you will know who is who :)
I can't wait for the video.
Love this help with identifying different blue jays. Love those jays! Thank you Lesley! ❤
This was incredible! Thank you! 💛
Oh I SO enjoy your videos and this one had me smiling throughout! You are truly the bird whisperer! I LOVED this!!
Thanks Jim glad you likes it!
Omg. This was fantastic! Thank you for answering my question! You are a wealth of knowledge.
You are so welcome. I'm glad you found this helpful.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video💙💙💙
So glad!
Fantastic observation and information!
Love this!
Thank you for this beautiful and very informative video.Bluejays have a special space in my heart!Thank you learned a lot!😊
Thank you Leslie! I learned so much from this video....I had no idea.
Thank you Lesley you are AMAZING and so are your birds!❤
Fantastic!! I was one who has asked for you to do a video like this ....and you exceeded my hopes with this one! I'm going to have to watch it many times. Thank you!!
Ah thats great, glad you enjoyed it
I've been watching the jays in my yard and trying to figure out how to ID them, so this helps! Glad to know the patterns persist through molts as well.
Brilliant! This video is truly a learning experience.
Lesley, thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful!
That was excellent…so informative…thanks bunches!
Thank you for the store of videos you have left us.
Wow! Fascinating and educational video. Isn't it amazing that they can be such individuals! Loved this!
oh yes
It really is!
Oh, I see the differences now that you pointed them out. Thanks for that! 🐦
What beautiful footage. This was a really well-put together video. It's informative but more so, the way you presented that info. I'm a visual learner so comparison footage and pictures really helped make your words clear. Before I watched this, I wasn't entirely sure where to spot the differences and they generally all looked the same to me, even though I knew there were differences present. But now, I know where to look and I can definitely see the difference in your Jays. Thanks so much for this video
Very cool video Leslie. Wow what differences they have. Love your channel
Had not to un see the differences
Thank you Terri
I know hey?! There really are differences between them :)
Thanks for sharing this Lesley, I Love this bird! It's very beautiful!
You are so welcome
Amazing video!!!! Great info!!! I have a few blue jays coming by and I’m trying to learn more about them. I can’t wait to pick up on these differences better!!! There are two that I can always tell apart but the other few I’m still learning about. Thank you for sharing!!!
What a wonderful video! What an observant and caring person you are! 🌼🐦
Thank you very much and glad you enjoyed
I really enjoyed your video. Thank you so much for taking the time to make it. Excellent job!
I have an ordinary backyard in a subdivision in Oklahoma City. But, I have a pond, and I have dedicated my backyard to whatever wildlife wants to come. I don't mow, or put out herbicide, or insecticide.
My pond draws birds for a drink and a bath frequently. Also, this time of year, toads come to reproduce. Some animals come and eat the fish.
My pond draws a large variety of perching birds, plus great blue herons, a red-tailed hawk, a great egret, possums, toads, mallards, tree squirrels, etc.
This morning, I am watching Blue Jays gathering twigs to make a nest. It is May 25th.
Several years ago I planted milkweed for monarch butterflies. It is all in bloom now. It spreads further in my yard every year. Monarch butterflies will be coming to lay eggs soon. 😊
That was great! Thanks for sharing!
❤ wow! This is absolutely fascinating and invaluable! I have 4 jays visiting my feeder this year so this will really help me identify them. Fun! Thanks
I liked the pop quiz there in the middle. I wish there was a test for all of them, LOL -- I'd re-watch a bunch of videos and see how I did! Thank you for this very informative video.
Wow! Great video. I learned a lot.
Very informative video, thanks for making this one especially!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super cool and interesting Lesley thanks. Will definitely share it with any of the young ones in the family that show interest. One loves blue jays and finds their feathers.
Wonderful, best of luck. :)
Very cool! Its awesome that they know you and mostly trust you.
Thanks :)
Thank you for this educational and informative and entertaining video… really a big help❣️
Glad it was helpful!
👍Excellent. I will start looking for these differences.
Wow, that was great. Amazing!
I've recognized variations in color patterns and other subtle markings this past summer, but even their eyes are different? That's a huge statement. I'll be watching for that this week! Interesting comparison! 🥰
Great video, looking forward to trying to start telling my buddies apart!
This is a great video idea, birds are like us with thrir own unique phenotypes
Great video Lesley, thank you❤
Lesley. I always set aside a quiet time to watch your videos, then I can really savor them. I love birds, many are so small and yet all of them are fierce in their own darling way.
That is so nice. I'm glad you take time to watch them. It's true about them all being fierce in their own way, even the small guys :)
Fascinating and so helpful! 😍
So glad you enjoyed it :)
Fascinating, and I want to mention that I finally saw a molting head of a blue Jay, I was so excited!
Too cute :)
all right this just proves that Lesley is a real life Disney Princess and no one can change my mind about it lol
hahaha
Very cool Leslie. 💙
Lesley, You are my first “Thanks” , listed somewhere down below. Your videos are as informative and calming as your presentation is charming. So, Thanks!
John T
Thats great to hear John.
Glad you are enjoying and thank you very much
Amazing! I know this has taken a lot of time getting to know these birds and discover the differences.
Thank you, Jana. It's a dedication for sure, I love it :)
@@LesleytheBirdNerd i understand. I love my birds but unfortunately I can’t become as closely connected due to a cat population!
That's fascinating! Great video!!
Thank you so much :)
You do great work, Lesley!
Thank you so much!
Hey thanks a lot, Mitch. Couldn't do it without Jamie's contribution. We make a great team :)
Love this! Mine are molting right now but can’t wait to use this info
Best of luck to you
Wonderful, as always.
Thank you! Cheers!
Wonderful! I learned a lot!
Lesley the Bird Nerd...That was the perfect tutorial; very informative and excellent video quality. Well done! I have a motel in New York's Adirondacks with many bird feeders. Consequently, I have many Blue Jays. It never occurred to me how many different characteristics these birds have...amazing.
Wonderful! I'm so glad you found the tutorial good. Now you will see your jays differently when they come around :)
Great video. Thanks!