A Blue Jay rolling peanuts down the roof, I like that. The jays here mostly just grab the peanuts and fly off (although I can't rule out that they're rolling peanuts on the roof of the house next door).

Pasting fonts from other sites sometimes gives weird results. I guess the fonts are not compatible with GW. I've posted a really strange title line also that I didn't see until too late.

Claire

Haha......do you think its just not that smart, and plans on eating it at the top of the roof, but doesn't understand that its going to roll?

Okay so now I'm curious seeing that "catherinet" suggested that it may be trying to eat it up there- what was the outcome of the "game" which is what I thought originally? Did he fly away with it or settled down and eat it?

Don't know the ending of the story. Other jays appeared and they all left. Did they take the nut or lose it? I could not say.

Blue jays are one of my favorites but I question their intelligence at times when I see them "hiding" raw peanuts in the lawn by tucking the peanuts down in the blades of grass or tucking the peanuts under a leaf. After a 2" snowfall one year, they hid the peanuts by sticking them into the snow. The squirrels in my yard are very appreciative, however.

I just noticed another jaybird repeating a frustrating exercise (Play?). It would set a peanut on a black garden hose and the try to peck it very hard. The nut would flip off into the yard.

The bird would fetch it and put it back on the garden hose and try to peck it again.

The nut would flip into the yard again.

After perhaps 8-10 iterations it took the nut and flew away.

I've seen crows place walnuts on a roof and roll them down until they are wedged against a squarish roof vent. They then can peck away without the nut rolling away. Sounds like the hose and peanut exercise might have been similar - something with some grip for pecking? Perhaps the jay was trying that on the roof, too.