I witnessed something yesterday that I have never seen, and was certain didn't happen..... I have had a Jay and several Jays at a time visiting my garden and feeding from the Peanut feeder and fat ball feeder. I have always been under the impression that Jays are very secretive birds, that like the cover of woodland, feeding on acorns etc and rarely breaking cover. As you will have seen from a post last week
HERE, I have had them in the open feeding on the ground in the garden and scrapping with the magpies, but this week I witnessed them actually up on the feeders, sods law first time I saw it no camera ready, but it is now left primed ready for such occurrences, and low and behold it happened again, this time I got the shots to prove it, although the light wasn't great they turned out fair to middling!
It has pretty much dispelled my belief that they are very secretive birds, something the RSPB makes clear in its
DESCRIPTION , I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it myself, i'm just interested now to know if anyone else has witnessed this???
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| This one appeared to have a gold bead in its mouth |