I hate them with a passion and shoot them whenever I can with my pellet rifle.
The hate really surfaced several years ago when I saw a Jay trying to get into my chickadee nesting box on the day they were fledging. Thinking all the chicks had left, I ignored it. Several days later when I went out to clean out the box, I found a dead chick that had it's eyes pecked out.
It's been war ever since.
Blue Jays are asshole birds.
Jays are not nice. They’re sort of a junior version of crows. I like them.