bugs or berries? I just wanna know if I should be welcoming him or shooing him none of my berries have bites taken out of them ... they're still green and pretty small - would he eat them that way? or is he just scoping them out, waiting for them to ripen?
Bhapimama Blue Jays are omnivores and will eat almost anything. Their diet can consist of nuts, seeds, fruits and other vegetable matter but they also eat eggs and nestlings, invertebrates, small rodents, frogs and even carrion. However when they take fruit it is usually only when it is ripe so I think, at the moment, they are probably eating bugs and caterpillars. I'd keep an eye on him though when those berries ripen.
Fooling those strawberry eating birds. Hi all: I read an interesting article on painting small stones red and placing them in your garden before your berries are ripe. The birds come and try and eat the stones but find out they aren't edible. Then when your berries ripen they aren't suppose to bother them. Has anyone tried that? Do you think it would work?
that sounds interesting - so far the birds haven't bothered my berries but I may try that if it becomes a problem in the future!
Interesting about the red stones. I'd like to know if that really works. I only have a small strawberry bed right now. And no problems with the birds so far. I have a couple of those kids' whirly-twirly things in there. I think they have been what's kept the birds away. That and the fact that as soon as a berry is ripe, it gets picked and eaten. The birds just don't stand a chance! :-D
When I had strawberries inevitably the birds would win. Farmer brown has more strawberries and he is less than a mile away. Jerry
