Some birds pair for life, like swans and bald eagles. Most backyard birds pair up for a season. Mourning doves sometimes mate for life, but their name doesn’t relate to grief when they lose a mate. Their instinct is to procreate and ensure the survival of the species.
They forget each other after every season. But when you just watch them, it’s easy to imagine they’re in love.
We saw these Blue Jays having breakfast in our back yard trees this morning. They’re pretty comical. They were also eating some kind of seeds they dug out of the trees. I can’t tell what kind of trees they are now that the leaves are all shriveled up.
I looked through an old bird book, Birds of Iowa, by Stan Tekiela. It doesn’t say anything very specific about what Blue Jays eat except the usual insects, fruit, seeds and nuts (like acorns and peanuts). They’ll eat raw eggs and baby birds. They also cache food.
If you can tell what kind of nut or seed that Blue Jay has in its beak, please let me know.
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