12/29/2023 0 Comments Blue jay bird feeder plans![]() ![]() Install a platform on the side of a garage, shed or porch under open shelter or an eave over looking both open spaces and foliage in your back yard from seven to twelve feet high. It has an 8″ by 8″ base, is about 8″ floor to ceiling and has an open front and partially open sides.īest Dimensions For Birdhouse Entrance Holes The Mourning Dove Platform has extra room under a gable roof for the larger back yard platform nesters: mourning doves, robins and blue jays. Platforms will more likely attract robins than blue jays or mourning doves, but either of these bird families are usually welcome. Occasionally blue jays nest on ledges formed by building molding, cornices and sills and sometimes on nesting platforms. The female lays three to six pale olive speckled eggs which hatch after about two weeks incubation and young leave the nest in about another three weeks. Blue jays regularly strike dogs and cats and sometimes take a swipe at the top of someone’s head as they walk by.īluejays build nests of twigs, leaves, roots and odd rubbish usually in pine trees up to twenty feet high deep in forests, in groves and they have a special liking for wooded towns and even major cities where they are quite accustomed to people. Cardinal & Blue Jay Shaped Feeder Set, Bird Feeder Woodworking Plans: The Winfield Collectionīlue jays bury hoards of grain, nuts and acorns, or hide them in knot holes and behind loose bark many of which are forgotten and left to the mice and squirrels or to replant the forest. ![]() They eat various fruits and larger insects, bark and wood borers, grasshoppers and caterpillars and occasionally a mouse, small fish or snail. Grayer underneath and lighter on the throat & tail coverts.īlue jays inhabit coniferous and mixed forests throughout most of North America from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast from the Gulf states to Newfoundland. Wings and tail bright blue barred with black. ![]() Black forehead and some black around the neck joining some black on the back. Purplish blue above with a conspicuous crest. ![]()
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