Blue Jay Take Out

Blue jays store food:

Blue jays will cache or hide acorns during the winter.At one time, they can hold 2-3 acorns in a special pouch in the throat called a “gular pouch”, one acorn in their mouth, and one acorn in the tip of their beak allowing them to carry up to 5 acorns to a cache site.A single blue jay can cache 3,000-5,000 acorns in one season.Not only does this ensure that the blue jay will have food throughout the winter, but by removing and hiding food sources from an area, other species or competitors may be deterred from entering the area. https://www.alabamawildlife.org/wonders-of-wildlife-blue-jay/