I hate those darn things and shoot them whenever I get the chance.
Approx. four or five years ago, I was watching a family of chickadee chicks one by one leave their nest box. Late in the afternoon when I thought all the babies had left the nest, I saw a bluejay on the nest box with his head in the box. I chased it off and didn't give a thought to it until two days later when I went out to clean out the box.
What I found was a final chick, dead with its eyes pecked out by that damn blue jay.
Since that day, blue jays have been number one on my hit list.....
Blue Jay’s will eat baby chicks whole. We never see more than two in a summer. I have a story that will make you laugh. We had a friend a dear elderly retired priest. He had an approved chapel in his farmhouse. I went there many times for Mass as he lived close by. I walked past a big bird feeder going in and out. He had been having a problem with blue jay’s. One morning passing by there was a dead blue jay strung up by his feet upside down hanging at the edge of the roof of the feeder. After Mass I asked him about ut and he said it was keeping the other bluejays away.