{"id":96,"date":"2013-02-14T18:50:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T18:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgtworld.com\/birding\/?p=96"},"modified":"2015-10-09T07:46:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T07:46:35","slug":"screeching-jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdingblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/14\/screeching-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Screeching Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday I was popping over to B&Q with my boys and whilst we were walking to the car, which was parked near to some small woods, we heard this awful screeching noise!\u00a0 At first I though it was a crow making a strange noise but when I managed to spot the offending bird, it wasn’t black like a crow and a bit smaller.\u00a0 I watched and listened to it for a few seconds until it crossed my mind that it looked a similar size to a Jay and I had heard somewhere before that they can make a screeching noise like we were hearing. Though I had never seen a Jay before so I was going off prior knowledge and not experience.<\/p>\n

Luckily, I had a pair of binoculars in the car so I whipped them out and had a look.\u00a0 I was correct!\u00a0 It was a Jay jumping about on the branches, looking quite agitated at something.\u00a0 I think it must have been a pregnant female as it was huge in the mid-drift so perhaps it was being harrassed by another bird, although I couldn’t see another one anywhere near it. If there were any, they would probably have been scared off by the horrible noise it was making anyway!<\/p>\n

My two young boys were interested as well so they had a look in our bird book that we kept in the car for these sorts of occasions, so they should now know what a Jay looks and sounds like.\u00a0 Ben, my 4 year old, tried to have a look through the binoculars but the Jay moved further away at that point and was hidden behind several more trees and branches, which was a shame!<\/p>\n

But I was very pleased to see my first Jay and now know that there must be at least one, and possible a breeding pair, in our nearby woods.\u00a0 I will be keeping an eye out for them from now on, that’s for sure! Hopefully, next time I see the Jay, I will have my DSLR camera on me so I can try and get some good photographs of it as that would be fantastic<\/p>\n

Here is an image from the RSPB website of a Jay.<\/p>\n

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