At the feeding station
Jays are very difficult birds to see for most of the year but in the Autumn and Winter they seem much more active, particularly when they are gathering acorns to hide away for leaner times. They can be pretty noisy too. When I drove in a few days ago, a group of four were making quite a racket from the top of the Redwood tree. Often, this is when they find a Tawny Owl or Buzzard roosting and they will give it a hard time in order to move it away from their territory. It is usually worth checking out just what is getting them upset in case it is an owl but I found nothing this time. The birds soon moved off once I got out of the vehicle. They are shy birds, just showing me their white rumps as they flew off further into the wood. I put out the woodland seed-feeder a weeks or so ago and it was very busy on this last visit with tits and Nuthatches coming and going constantly. Cole, Blue, Great and Marsh tits were...
