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So What Should We Call This – a Grue Jay?
University of Texas Austin ^ | September 28, 2025 | Marc Airhart

Posted on 09/30/2025 5:36:50 AM PDT by Red Badger

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LOVE WILL FIND A WAY.........................
1 posted on 09/30/2025 5:36:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Blue Jays are real dicks.


2 posted on 09/30/2025 5:39:34 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I figure if Charlie Kirk can die for free speech, I can be mildly inconvenienced.)
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To: Lazamataz

Yes, they are. Don’t know about Green Jays, though..............


3 posted on 09/30/2025 5:40:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Just don’t let it go to public schools and read stories to children.


4 posted on 09/30/2025 5:40:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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It can’t be a Grue unless it lurks in dark places and eats adventurers...


5 posted on 09/30/2025 5:42:14 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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Climate change hoax still being pushed.


6 posted on 09/30/2025 5:46:03 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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Blue jays are great parents. Every year, after their brood has left the nest, you see the parents with almost bald heads because they’ve lost their head feathers from feather mites in the nest. To me, that’s the sign of a loyal and faithful parent.

We have a flock that descend on peanuts when I throw them out. Always a joy to see.


7 posted on 09/30/2025 5:50:58 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: Lazamataz

They serve a purpose when a predator is spotted. All birds know the blue jay alarm call. Once the element of surprise is gone the snake, cat, hawk’s game is over.


8 posted on 09/30/2025 5:51:52 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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I know. Can you believe such nonsense?


9 posted on 09/30/2025 5:52:05 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Red Badger

I would call it, “Any Port in a Storm.”


10 posted on 09/30/2025 5:53:54 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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Jay Leno? Interesting timing of seeing this story, I am at my remote cabin which is a 31 mile boat ride to the nearest town. We have stellar jays here. Really friendly birds, had one get inside my cabin yesterday, never had that happen before! I released him on his own recognizance


11 posted on 09/30/2025 5:56:01 AM PDT by Bigbrown
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Stellar Jay....Blue Jay with a Mohawk.............


12 posted on 09/30/2025 5:57:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Some birds like cardinals brighten our backyard by entering; others, by leaving—often chased by angry little wrens—like bluejays, the Adam Schiffs of the bird world, obnoxious [Expletives deleted]


13 posted on 09/30/2025 5:58:19 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Blue Jays are real dicks.


Still better than the Yankees.


14 posted on 09/30/2025 6:00:37 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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They surely are the apex of avian A-holes.


15 posted on 09/30/2025 6:01:52 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Lazamataz

They surely are the apex of avian A-holes.


16 posted on 09/30/2025 6:01:53 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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The Blue Jays and the Yankees are in a battle.


17 posted on 09/30/2025 6:04:30 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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I just love birds. Most of them anyway. I know buzzards are good for getting rid of road kill, but they are one ugly bird. Blue Jays are a very pretty bird, but ones with an attitude. When I walk into the nearby woods, they will immediately start screeching, and that warns other creatures also. At the feeder they are one of the first to arrive and gorge themselves, but they scatter a lot of the seed to the ground and that feeds the birds that like to eat at ground level like the doves. I’ve seen them drive off hawks that were too near their nest, kind of like Gutfeld taking on Tyrus.


18 posted on 09/30/2025 6:13:58 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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Can they both lose?

Go Tigers!


19 posted on 09/30/2025 6:15:45 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_5XkPh3vXg&pp=ygUURmFtaWx5IGd1eSBub2FocyBhcms%3D


20 posted on 09/30/2025 6:15:48 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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