Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal (and a pal) partake of peanuts at the Park. #Wordless Wednesday #A favorite vintage ornament.
- Lean, mean and green.
- Which way is Santa Claus? #Wordless Wednesday #Remember those days?
- When there’s wicked wind, wildflowers and …
- Before and after a cup of Joe. #Wordless Wednesday #Sadly, we don’t ALL rise and shine!
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FIFTY FAVORITE PARK PHOTOS
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- Parker noshin’ nuts
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Black Squirrel
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- Parker, my Park cutie!
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- Pekin Duck
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- Mallard Hybrid Duck
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- Midnight munchin’ nuts
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- Mute Swan
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- Goslings
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- Mama Robin
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- Seagulls on ice floe
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Parker chowin’ down
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- Mallard Duck
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- Northern Cardinal
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- Great Blue Heron (“Harry”) fishing for shad
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- Parker: shameless begging
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- Viceroy Butterfly
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- Great Blue Heron
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- American Goldfinch
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- Seagull
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- Robin baby (not fledged yet)
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Robins almost ready to fledge
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- Parker angling for peanuts
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- Robin fledgling
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- Parker making a point that he wants peanuts
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- Parker smells peanuts
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- Parker with a peanut
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Seagull
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- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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- Pekin Duck
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- Starling
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- Canada Geese family
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- Canada Goose and goslings
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Parker says candy is dandy.
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- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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- American Goldfinch
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- Hunny Bunny
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- Parker looking for peanuts
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- The pier just past sunrise
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- Mute Swan
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- Parker in the snow
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- Parker and a treat
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Me and my shadow (a/k/a Parker)
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Seagull
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- Canada Goose
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Mute Swan
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- Fox Squirrel – Parker
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- Northern Cardinal
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BADGES
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- 02-02-2018
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- 03-13-2018
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- 03-25-2018
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- 03-26-2018
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- Year #6!! 02/2019
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- 04-13-2019
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- 11-21-19
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WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
The birds are beautiful!
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I really liked watching them Anne. If it is just the birds and no squirrels around, they can afford to be picky about the peanuts, picking them up and tossing them in the air to weigh which ones are the heaviest for the biggest peanuts inside.
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My mother always had a hatred for blue jays, for reasons I never understood. But they surely photograph nicely!
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JP, they may be beautiful, but they are very mean, so maybe your mother witnessed a jay attacking another bird … or a human. Quick story: about 25 years ago the neighbor across the street had her windows open and heard a man crying out for help. She went to the front door and a blue jay was attacking the man. He was bald-headed and the bird’s sharp beak was repeatedly stabbing the man’s head and blood was running everywhere. He felt onto the ground. She called 911 and he was taken away by ambulance. He stopped by the house to thank her a few days later. They determined he walked under a blue jay’s nest in her maple tree and the jay perceived the man was a threat to his family and attacked him. Just incredible, isn’t it?
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Looks like your peanuts passed the test!
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I think so too Kate. 🙂 Whenever the squirrels aren’t around, the Blue Jays rummage through the peanuts, picking them up and tossing them in the air to see if they are heavy (like a two-peanut or triple-peanut prize) and then decide which ones to fly off with. It is amazing to see really. Who says birds are “bird brains”?
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They seem very diligent about the inspection process! Well done, blue jays!
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Isn’t that amazing Barbara! If the squirrels aren’t around and the Jays can take their time to examine the peanuts by tossing them in the air like you see here, they will peruse each one before taking off with the biggest ones in their beak. These two Jays were competing for the best peanut(s) here.
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I’m so used to your squirrel buddies munching on peanuts that it’s strange to see bluebirds doing the same. The feather colors/patterns on the bird in the first photo are striking, like something you’d sooner see produced by a printer!
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I agree with you Dave – they really are striking-looking birds. I understand that only birding experts can tell the male and female apart because unlike most birds where the females have drab-colored feathers, all Jays look alike. The squirrels were not around then, so that gave the Jays a chance to literally pick through them, looking for the biggest peanuts -they even toss them in the air to “weigh” them. It amazes me to see that. 🙂
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Beautiful birds!
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Yes, I agree with you Ally. They were picking through the peanuts, tossing them up in the air to find the biggest ones, so it gave me a good opportunity to take their pictures.
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Quality control is important!
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Yes! The Jays do a great job inspecting those peanuts, tossing them up in the air to weigh them, to pick the biggest ones!
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Hmmm…I thought there was a saying: something about beggars and choosers???
Love those sassy blue jays.
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Yes Laurie – I want to tell them sometimes to be grateful for what they have, but they keep on tossing them up in the air to see which ones weigh the most. Sassy indeed!
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Beautiful birds colour looking. Which is Bird? 🕊️
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I agree Raj – they are very beautiful birds with their coloring. These are Blue Jays.
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Really I like these Birds. Thanks your kind reply me.
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You are welcome Raj.
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I always find it funny that Blue Jays are so picky about their peanuts. When we feed them when camping, they will pick one up, drop it and move on. Sometimes they will check out 3 or 4 before picking one to eat.
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It cracks me up too Susan. They only pick through the peanuts to choose the ones they want, maybe ones that weigh the most, when the squirrels aren’t around. The Jays start tossing them up in the air and checking them all out. If the squirrels are eating peanuts, it’s grab and go. 🙂
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Great shots of their action and antics with peanuts! I don’t presently have acorns but our previous property was loaded with them. My Blue Jays would gather as many acorns as possible in their mouth before flying off. I cannot remember the highest count I ever saw, but it was always hilarious watching to see if it could get….just….one….more….in 😂
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Thanks Donna! The Blue Jays are so funny to watch. If the squirrels are around munching peanuts, the Jays just grab one and go, but, if they’re lucky to “own the pile”, they leisurely pick them up, toss them in the air to “weigh” them, then take them to go, like here. I didn’t realize the Blue Jays could carry multiple acorns in their mouth – almost like a chipmunk! I’ll have to watch for that. I did laugh when I took a bag of whole walnuts to the Park when there was no snow but we had a snowstorm coming that night. I laid a couple of walnuts at the base of a tree for a squirrel up in that tree that saw me. The Jay also saw me and as I walked away, it zoomed over and realized it couldn’t lift a walnut, but in its haste to leave and avoid me, it grazed a tree and fell to the ground. I was horrified, but it looked stunned, then took off again, none the worse for the wear.
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😅 oh my, I did giggle about the Jay grazing the tree, poor thing, so glad it was okay!
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I was glad it was okay too, but I think the look on its face was disdain at seeing walnuts, not peanuts!
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Wow! That’s a lot of peanuts to process!
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And I’m pretty sure they went through all of them Dawn. With no squirrels around (for a change), the Jays had a good ol’ time tossing them up in the air to see which ones weighed the most and were worthy enough to carry off. 🙂
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Love the Blue Jays! 😀 Toronto’s pro baseball team was named after them. Looks like the peanuts all passed inspection.
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These Blue Jays were so funny Debbie. There were no squirrels around, so they took their time picking up peanuts and shaking them, tossing them in the air to see which ones weighed the most, then flew off with the biggest ones and returned again for more. See there are sunflower seeds there – they were ignored. I do remember when the Toronto Blue Jays came about. My grandmother, who loved her wrestling and hockey, saved me some of the free swag that “The Toronto Star” had tucked in the newspaper, a team poster and a cardboard hat. We went to visit her and she gave them to me.
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I’m glad you commented, Linda. Your post disappeared! I’d seen your email then …nothing. Great shots of the control crew, I know they love seeing you!
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That has happened before with my posts Terri, not often, but I follow myself in Reader so I know if it happens. People were commenting that follow me on WP (as opposed to subscribers), so they were getting the post in Reader. WP unsubscribed me! I’m glad you liked my QC control crew – they always make me laugh when they test all the peanuts to find the heaviest ones. They only do those shenanigans when the squirrels aren’t around. This was in December before the waves of snow/ice/freezing rain started slamming us.
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They look serious about their work! Don’t make a sound while they do their strict investigation and taste control. lol. Love these photos.
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Thanks Esther! Yes, they take their work very seriously. 🙂 They flip the peanuts into the air to test which are the heaviest, so the better deal to choose those, then they fly off with them and return for more. They only do these shenanigans when the squirrels are not there. Otherwise, it’s grab-n-go!
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With the squirrels around, they don’t get that luxury of being choosy! You’re right…grab-n-go. Get what you can while you can.
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The only time I see them eat companionably is in the Winter where they politely dine together and don’t crowd one another. I always find that interesting as the rest of the time, it is every critter out for themselves. Those Jays are pretty smart though.
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So neat that you have Blue Jays!!! None here due to West Nile virus. Blue Jays are very susceptible to it. My, they are so very beautiful!!!
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I really enjoy seeing the Blue Jays here Tom. We did have West Nile a long time ago and lost a lot of our Blue Jays and Cardinals from it. These Blue Jays are so smart. They toss the peanuts into the air to find the heaviest ones. If the peanut is lightweight, they select another peanut. The squirrels were not around, otherwise they wouldn’t do this – then they grab and go! From time to time we have a Cooper’s Hawk in the neighborhood. The “Town Criers” are the Blue Jays, many of them. They screech and shriek repeatedly like an alarm call to warn all the birds to take cover. They won’t stop screeching/shrieking until the Cooper’s Hawk has left. I watched this once and took photos of the Cooper’s Hawk perched in the tree across the street from my house. The hawk did not move; the Jays keep screeching nonstop. It was incredible to see and hear this.
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