I thought they must be, as I don’t recall you mentioning them last winter. Only the mockers and the cardinals. And the occasional soon-to-be-dead bunny.
And the wrens and finches and bluebirds and tufted titmice and dark-eyed juncos and woodpeckers and chickadees and goldfinches and brown thrashers and starlings and ravens and the occasional confused hawk.
But the blue jays are new. It will be interesting to see whether they try to nest here in the mockers’ territory.