Comments on: Have You Seen Any Blue Jays Lately?

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:12:16 +0000

That’s good news!

By: Debra

Debra — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:09:29 +0000

About an hour and a half after I checked this site, I was in my garden & heard a familiar screaming. I looked up & there was a blue jay! I hurriedly filled the sunflower seed feeder & threw some on the street but by that time, the jay had flown up the street screaming. It was like it was saying “Hey I’m here!” Amazing!

By: Debra

Debra — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:56:46 +0000

Thank you Kate St. John, there are some in the area per the map but not many. Still a mystery. I do miss them even though they’re bullies!

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:37:48 +0000

This morning, March 26, I suddenly saw more blue jays in my Pittsburgh neighborhood than I’d seen for a long time. They must have come in overnight.

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:55:42 +0000

I don't know what's going on where you live, but I can guide you to ebird.org that will show you where the blue jays are this winter. Go to http://ebird.org/ebird/map/, enter Species "blue jay" and Custom date range of "Jan to March" of the Current Year and you'll get a color coded map of the sightings of blue jays in the past few months. If you put in your location you can also see who where blue jays are near you.

By: Debra

Debra — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:22:48 +0000

We were wondering where the blue jays have gone also. We have always had MANY & the minute there was new food, they were there. We have not seen any here in North Brunswick NJ at all. My other half swears it’s been since Sandy but I can’t say I can recall when they disappeared. I have emailed Cornell Ornithology Dept & the guy who writes the birding column for the Star-Ledger (NJ paper) and neither have responded. I also spoke to an Audobon rep who lives in northern NJ & she has noticed the decline also. I would really like to know what is going on.

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:48:16 +0000

Only one blue jay has come to our feeder in the last two years. And he was just passing by. I live in Somerset, PA. I’ve missed them and wondered why they seem to have disappeared.

By: Margot Lash

Margot Lash — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:42:29 +0000

I live in Cornwall on Hudson, NY.. I’ve been feeding the birds all winter and haven’t had one Blue Jay. I had jays at our place in the central Adirondacks last summer, but not to have them here is very strange. We are surrounded by protected state land, so habitat isn’t a problem. From all the blogs that I have been reading, here and on other websites there seems to be something going on that has caused a very dramatic reduction in the population of this bird.

By: carol stanley

carol stanley — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:55:26 +0000

I live in southern Pa and this is the first year I have not seen any blue jays. I’ve been feeding birds for 43 years here

By: Bilal Popp

Bilal Popp — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:40:56 +0000

I live in southern canada and i havent seen a blue jay for 15 years!! And Ive lived in the same town my whole life and the last time I saw a blue jay in my yard was when I was 5 and I knew right there that that was my favorite bird. I am now 20 years old and I havent seen a blue jay since…

Whered they go?