Jays do eat fledglings, but small birds have large broods to off set this predation and numbers should stay stable, (unless other environmental factors affect them) We have Jays, magpies and lots of small birds in our garden. The jays are beautiful and very welcome.
Already commented on another thread, we seem to be seeing a lot of Jays both in the garden & the Allotment. Usually hardly ever see them but seem to be around every day at the moment.
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Already commented on another thread, we seem to be seeing a lot of Jays both in the garden & the Allotment. Usually hardly ever see them but seem to be around every day at the moment.
It seems to have been a bumper acorn year here and apparently we get additional migrant birds from Europe if the harvest has been poor there. Some years we get large numbers of migrants so it may turn out to be an irruption year for them if people are seeing a lot of activity. I've seen quite a few this year already but we're in a stonghold area for them here and migrants probably won't have made it this far west.
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Nastier than magpies though.
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