Because they're not on top of the food chain. Plus they have to watch out for the pink giants that come around and cut down their trees to make room for more Mcdonalds.
They have to do that because they don't have depth perception like we do. They bob their heads and look around like that for depth perception also most birds can't physically move their eyeballs
I love jays. They really are characters. I had a California scrub jay visit my bird bath and feeder on my apartment balcony every day. He loved the raw peanuts I put out. He would always hide them in the surrounding potted plants. Eventually he was brave enough to come inside as long as I was tossing him peanuts. He even started to come next to me and take peanuts off my knee as I sat on the sofa. I stopped feeding him because every morning he would wake me up with his loud screeching to be fed.
I raised a baby Cardinal and have several videos of him bathing in slow motion. It’s really neat to watch and to hear the sounds their wings make when doing so.
HOW beautiful they both are!! This beyond-needed, delightful and oh-so-apprreciated video is a balm to my blood pressure in these horrible times we live in.
I moved from Georgia to Seattle. I so miss the cardinals, though we kind of make up for it by having hummingbirds all year long. It was amazing a couple of years ago to watch 11 at a time flock to a feeder during a snowstorm when one usually tries to take it over. My favorite cardinal memory is at the end of a summer, watching a once gorgeous male cardinal, feathers now frowsy and beat up looking, feeding his grown looking daughter who was flapping her wings and chirping loudly, demanding food over and over!
Cardinals come to Arizona in the Winter. I’ve seen them every Season my whole 63 years. If you want to see the Largest BlueJays in USA, go to the San Bernardino Mtns. In California. Seeing the height Pine Trees then catch sight of those big healthy Blue Birds is a beautiful sight.
AWWW...! I have BOTH birds here in SW FL....and it is TINDER-dry right now....we have not had rain in WEEKS...so keeping my concrete bird bath filled with water EVERY day....I Still have not seen my dear male & female cardinals take a bath....love them and all birds!
New friend here of your channel today. Ty for sharing your videos and reminders of all the beautiful nature Gifts GOD has made. HUGS and GOD bless us everyone 🤗❤
Cardinal: Your bird bathing days are over, Blue Jay. Give me the fountain! Blue Jay: If you want it, then you'll have to take it... But you already knew that.
Great capture blue jays & cardinals are very common city and urban birds I like seeing them whenever I do see them it always shines my day! Seems like it was a very hot day over there so I can see why they would decide to bathe right now Thank you very much for this very nice video!
@@sharpwavethedecepticon6837 Bluejay, Cardinal, Sparrow, Golden Flinch, Woodpecker, chickadee, morning doves, crows, red winged black birds, dark eye junco, ducks, geese, gray catbird, hummingbirds in our flowers, owls (at night), hawks and eagles and storkes flew overhead sometimes, and maybe a few others. We also attracted squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, deer, coyotes, and racoons (at night). We also saw a weasel one time. Unfortunately we also attracted mice, but we caught them with non lethal traps and released them far away in other forest. Thank you for asking, it brought back good memories :) Birds are my favorite animals :D
When I was a child, I used to always think bluejays were the male birds and cardinals were the female birds of the same species, and that they were always happily married when I saw them. Lol it still makes me happy to this day when I see them, beautiful little ceeatures.
Hermoso video, Like 👍♥️♥️ Lo que no entiendo es por qué 59 personas estúpidas le dieron no like, si el vídeo de éstas aves bañándose en el agua está tan bonito. La respuesta es ésta: Son personas sin sentimientos que no aprecian la creación de dios, así de simple. Por mi parte yo agradezco que en RU-vid existan videos así de hermosos de aves. 👍
I saw something remarkable today. I live in NYC, in a third floor apartment with a fire escape that looks out onto a park. I have a few bird feeders hanging from my fire escape and I had my windows open to let in some fresh air. I glanced outside and literally three feet in front of my window, directly over my fire escape is where it happened. Two blue jays were tumbling like wagon wheels in the air. Over and under. Over and under. I've never seen a blue jay fly upside down but here they were. At the center of this vortex was a beautiful red cardinal, seemingly spinning vertically in place, surrounded by the two blue jays. The saturated blues. That red. The movement. No artist could have imagined anything so beautiful. All three birds were tangled in air. Were they playing? Fighting? A moment later all three birds landed on my fire escape railing, calmly resting. They seemed to know each other and were not antagonized. A few moments later they flew off. The last few years I've been feeding blue jays peanuts from my fire escape but, during this time, I've only seen a couple of cardinals. Apparently they shy away from buildings and glass. Cardinals feed in the early morning and dusk hours so why did this encounter happen? Oh my, it took my breath away. I had a brief moment with God.
