Feeding Jay Birds, Magpies and Crows
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- I was already feeding magpies and jays for some time. In this area the crows usually stay away from houses. I was working hard to attract them and finally they came.
The crow parents raised four young in a tree about 70 meters away (see the Crows Nest video series on this channel).
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)
"My" magpies are crazy about walnuts!
Yes, they like walnuts here too. And cashew nuts. And scrambled eggs (no salt)
❤vraiment très très intéressant..merci
avec plaisir
I live in a shitty apartment for bird feeding, high up but only tiny windowsills, somewhat next to trees. Magpies and crows will show up somewhat regularly, but Eurasian Jays are a really rare and welcome sight 🥲
Nice video. We don't have those black crows in this area, only the black hooded ones. And we have never seen the jay birds here (they are in the country, but not here...). Nice to see.
Thanks for your comment.
The eastern part of Germany is hooded crow territory. They mix only along a strip between the distribution areas. Here I have only seen very few hybrids between black and hooded crows.
The jays are really nice birds. But very shy here. Usually they hide well, so you hear them more often than you see them.
After they realized that I feed them, they were less shy. I had some quite close encounters in spring. Like they enjoy the company with somebody they can trust. But when breeding season started, they became completely invisible and stayed away. Probably they breed in the forest.
I have Stellar Jays in my Colorado forest they really talk to me until and if I don't give them some peanuts.
That is very cool. I would love to hear them talk to people (but I know it might be too difficult to record). Thanks for telling.
I feel you could make jays happy by putting down 65000 peanuts of different sizes, sorted by weight and labeled by manufacturer.
My Western Scrub Jays respond more to the color of the peanut prefer lighter to darker, than size. My bird, Pete takes 2 at a time, which can be a challenge for him, but he works at it until he gets 2.
Thanks for the tip with the peanut color. So far I gave them the good looking peanuts, the ones which I would also prefer.
I think it's worth trying to mix colors, to see if their preferences are the same as mine.
Your wild western scrub jay is great. I didn't know this species. They seem to be much smaller than our eurasian jays.
@@kestrelsandcrows6871 I did a lot of ‘tests’ using various combinations of big/small, light/dark. Definite preference was big/light, but small/light vs big/dark results were more fuzzy, especially as the values were judgments (how big is big, how dark is dark). Bottom line, it was a fun way to kill a couple of hours giving away peanuts. I did note that giving a cracked peanut probably got it shelled and eaten, while uncracked were taken and buried. My jays are about 10 inches, tip to tail. What’s comical is to give them several peanuts to choose from and watch them try to choose which to take.
@@harleyb.birdwhisperer As I don't feed the birds by hand, I am less aware of such details. The slow decision-making is something I also know in Eurasian jays. It seems to be common among jays in general.
To me it makes a lot of sense that they are picky. Every flight requires energy. And there's always the risk that a hawk could be in the air. I think it is very wise to take time for decision-making.
If you live in Las Vegas, you have to go to the desert to see the crows. They don't hang out in town much at all. Our main corvids are the great tailed Grackles, and they're very cool. We don't have as many as they do in Texas, so nobody here hates them. Most people think they are ok if they even notice them at all. (Everybody has their face in the phone these days)
Thank you for your comment. I never heard about great tailed Grackles before, and I had to take a look at Wikipedia. Interesting birds, I shall search for videos.
@@kestrelsandcrows6871 there are lots of them. If you go to some of the ones where they take over the Walmart parking lots in Texas, you will see some comments by me that are in response to some very mean and ignorant statements made by people who want to kill them. Some of my replies are rather harsh, but I cannot let those kind of statements slide without saying something.
I dearly love those Grackles. They are my friends and I feel compelled to speak up in their behalf.
parents will take extra risks to feed the young
This is true. Every day I have put down peanuts on a stone block directly in front of the nesting tree, and the crow parents took them. They had four chicks and wanted more. So they took the risk to enter the roof terrace, where I used to feed the magpies and the jays.
Try cat biscuits. Best all round food for corvids, cheap too.
@@papalegba6796 I bought cat sticks once and they took it. The problem is that the smell of cat food bothers me. Don't want to keep cat food inside.
Ok. Suet pellets & dried mealworms also good. The higher the protein the better. Fish, meat, eggs, they love it.
Umfangreiche Tests haben ergeben, dass meine (Berliner Innenstadt) Nebelkrähen mit großem Abstand Cashews allem Nussähnlichen vorziehen. Die Rangfolge (jeweils ohne Schale) ist: Cashew, Walnuss, Paranuss, Mandel, Haselnuss, Ernuss. Im allgemeinen ist Ei (v.a. hartes Eigelb) besser als Cashew, Fischstäbchen besser als Ei und Gulasch (nur das ungewürzte Fleisch) besser als Fisch.
Ich habe es aber auch schon erlebt, dass eine Krähe ein großes Stück Gulasch im Schnabel hatte, damit über den Rasen gehoppelt ist, dabei (zufällig?) auf ein paar Cashews stieß und für die das Fleisch sofort fallenließ. Generell scheint das interessanter, was sie ein paar Tage lang nicht bekommen haben (das ergibt ja auch Sinn). Ich habe es aber nie geschafft, in nennenswerter Menge irgendwelche Früchte an sie zu verfüttern. Ich hatte hier mal 'ne Apfelscheibe mit einem deutlichen Krähenfußabdruck...
Vielen Dank für den ausführlichen Erfahrungsbericht.
Cashews verfüttere ich hier auch seit einiger Zeit. Vor allem die Elstern bevorzugen Cashews. Bei den Krähen konnte ich bisher noch keine eindeutige Präferenz feststellen, da in der Regel die Elstern schnell alle Cashews abräumen.
Die Erdnüsse gibt es bei mir immer in der Schale und die Cashews werden grob zerkleinert.
Ich vermute eine Optimierungsstrategie: Eine Elster kann nur eine Erdnuss gleichzeitig transportieren, somit bieten Cashews mehr Nahrung pro Flug.
Vom ersten hartgekochten Ei wurde hauptsächlich das Eigelb verzehrt, was ich persönlich durchaus nachvollziehen kann. Seitdem mache ich Rührei, damit das ganze Ei verwertet wird.
Fleisch habe ich nur in Form von Cat-Sticks verfüttert. Ich kann den Geruch von Katzenfutter nicht leiden, daher ist es bei einer Packung geblieben.
Spätestens im Frühjahr werde ich Fleisch verfüttern. Die Krähenbabies haben vermutlich nicht genug Proteine bekommen. Zwei von ihnen haben ausgeprägte weiße Stellen im Gefieder.