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They make that sound to communicate with family members but I don't know the meaning. I routinely discourage Blue Jays from coming around my front yard since they prey on song bird eggs and nestlings. I'd come to the window and shoo them away and used tube feeders they couldn't access, but last year they nested in the front Tulip Poplar tree, but so high I couldn't see them from the picture window. They'd come over the roof silently, keeping out of sight and silent. They even took the fledglings into the woods next to my bedroom window to teach them to fly. Since they weren't harassing the song birds in the front yard I didn't mind.

Hi Lorna! I don't spend much time over here, just checking out the different forums (though, I'm thinking I should, you guys have some AWESOME pictures!) I typically stay on the "gardening side." Not sure where you are Lorna, but around here (Colorado's Front Range, west of Denver) the Stellar's jays rarely come down out of the foothills and mountains, which are a few miles to the west of me. I saw a couple down here last year , but that was a BIG surprise to me! I had never seen them this low in elevation before, and they haven't been back since. I don't think they live east of the Rockies either, so, if you in that part of the country, they may not be in your area! BEAUTIFUL pictures! How do you get such fine detail and sharpness?!

Blue Jays like fruit, like black cherry, mulberry (plant a red mulberry if you go this route), blueberry, grape, and serviceberry. They like wooded edges and suburban settings. In the spring they, like most birds, raise their young on caterpillars, so plant some butterfly host plants. Native oak, birch, cherry, pine, apple, and maple trees are all good caterpillar hosts. Goldenrods, asters, eupatoriums, and wild strawberry are decent herbaceous host plants. Planting their preferred plants would be good although it wont be an instant fix, and you will also attract other larger critters interested in the fruit. All the birds enjoy sunflower seeds more than anything at my place. I mix the meal worms in with sunflower seeds but the birds dont really like them and I see them all over the ground around the feeder. Put your feeder near cover, like overhanging tree branches.