Blue Jays

Blue jays eat bugs, and owls and falcons eat blue jays. They are most active during. Their average life span is  5-7 years. They live in VFFS because there is a lot of brush to build nests, and because there are a lot of gardens which attract insects, and blue jays eat the insects. They also live here because there are a lot of tall trees to build their nests.

Fun facts:

• Blue jays eat 8-12 grams of food a day.

• Blue jays build their nests 10-25 feet in the air.

• Blue jays love to nest in the big hardwood trees that are in Vermont.

• Blue jays are social birds and can often be found in groups of 5-250 when they are migrating.

• There are around 13 million to 17 million blue jays in the world.

• Blue jays have about 2-7 eggs a year.

• You can hear them that sound like a high pitch jay-jay-jay.

• Blue jays are fascinating creatures and one of the reasons why they're fascinating creatures is because they have a mostly blue body.

• Blue hays will teach their chicks to fly at the age of 17 to 21 days old. 

• Blue jays are declared adults at 1 year of age, and they're also fully grown at one year of age.

• Adult blue jays do not remain with their family when they're an adult.

• The population of blue jays has gone down a lot since the 1980s because we are chopping down trees for homes.