How to attract the Blue Jays in the garden? By BirdFeederist

Blue Jays are beautiful medium size birds that can increase the natural beauty of any garden. This is the one main reason that people always try to attract the maximum number of Blue Jays in their backyard. For this purpose, people mainly focus on the particular type of feeders for blue jays in their garden.

Feeders are one of the main sources of the Blue Jays attraction in the garden, but this is not the only way to attract the Blue Jays in the garden. There are many other good ways of attracting the Blue Jays, which are very useful. You have to use these ways along with the particular type of feeders to attract the Blue Jays.

Different ways to attract the Blue Jays

Different ways of Blue Jay’s attraction include the use of their favorite food, nesting material, bathing tub, feeder location, and many other ways. Let’s know more about these ways to attract the maximum number of Blue Jays in the garden.

1. Favorite Food

The use of the bird’s favorite food is one of the very common ways of attracting them. You can use Blue Jay’s favorite food in the feeder to attract them. The ideal food of the Blue Jays includes peanut seeds, grains, and corn. They also love to enjoy the whole peanuts as well. Blue Jays have powerful black bills that help them to crack the corn and nuts. You can also use roasted and unsalted nuts to attract the Blue Jays. But make sure you don’t choose too spicy seeds.

When talking about their favorite fruit, they like the barries and other types of small fruit. They also like different kinds of insects as well.

2. Special Feeders

As discussed above as well, BlueJay-specific feeders are one of the best feeders to attract the Blue Jays. You can use these types of feeders in your garden to attract the maximum number of Blue Jays. Try to use the feeders with a tray or with specific perches to attract the Blue Jays because these birds like to feed with maximum comfort. Try to avoid the swinging feeders because they can be uncomfortable for the Blue Jays. You can easily choose the ground, window, or pole-mounted feeders for the maximum comfort of the Blue Jays. Use the Blue Jay’s favorite food in the feeders to attract them.

3. Nesting material

Providing the nesting material to the Blue Jays is another way of attracting them to the garden. Especially in the breeding season when the female usually gives the seven eggs in the nest. Moreover, the Blue Jays love to make more than one nest. So they can quickly move into the other one if they found any predator near the first one. So make sure to provide the proper nesting material and nesting locations to the Blue Jays. They love to make the nest in hidden places. If you have some trees in your garden, it’s ok, otherwise provide them the sticks, twigs, grass, and the hidden platform.

4. Feeder location

Feeder location is another crucial thing to attract the Blue Jays. Because many people still asking the question about the less Blue Jays attraction even after using the unique feeders. You need to use a perfect location for the feeder to attract them. The main spots to attract the Blue Jays are near the Shrubbery, a tree, or any other comfortable platform. These birds are usually very shy and don’t want to visit the feeders which are placed near humans or any pet animal in the garden. Moreover, try to put your feeder under any shade.

5. Bathing tub              

You can also provide a fresh hot tub in your garden to attract the maximum number of birds, including the Blue Jays because Blue Jays need fresh water to drink and to beat the heat of the peanuts as well. Moreover, they love to splashdown in the fresh hot water, especially in the winter season, when Blue was not found the fresh warm water anywhere. Some people also use the large bathing tubs in their garden, which also increases the beauty of their garden.

6. Keep the distance

Make sure to keep the distance from the feeders because Blue jays don’t like to visit in the presence of humans. Moreover, make sure to don’t hang your feeder near any pet animal like cats and dogs, etc. So make sure to keep a proper distance from the most visiting places of the Blue Jays in your garden.

7. Plant the right plants in the garden

You can also attract the Blue Jays by planting some unique plants in your garden, which are helpful for the Blue Jays for nesting. Moreover, the Blue Jays also like to eat some kind of plant. You can plant some oak trees for this purpose.

8. Squirrel-proof your feeder

Make sure your feeder is squirrel proof because this can be the most discouraging factor for the Blue Jays. Blue Jays don’t like to visit these feeders, which have squirrels and other unwanted audiences. You need to minimize the squirrel’s visits towards your feeder.

Three most favorite seeds of the Blue Jays

The favorite food of the Blue Jays includes the different seeds, little insects, and some fruit as well as discussed above. But the most favorite thing in all of these is the seeds. Let’s see the three most favorite seeds of the Blue Jays.

• The first one is the peanut, as discussed above as well. Blue Jays love to enjoy the whole peanut or just the salted and roasted peanuts as well.
• The second most favorite seeds of the Blue Jays are Black sunflower seeds. You can provide them these seeds in the feeder to attract them.
• The third most favorite seeds by the Blue Jays are striped sunflower seeds. They love to enjoy this kind of sunflower seeds as well. For more taste, you can also provide these three kinds of seeds in one feeder.

Conclusion        

From all the above discussion, we can conclude that using a specially designed feeder for BlueJays helps attract them. But you have to incorporate other useful techniques of attracting the Blue Jays along with feeders. This way you can attract a maximum number of Blue Jays in the garden.