Question for bird lovers. I have been finding peanuts still in the shell near my pine tree a

[debm55]

home to blue jays. Do you think it's possible to fly with an unshelled peanut. Or do you think it might be from another type of animal, maybe a squirrel or chipmunk? They are just laying in the grass. Thank you

Edit --Thank you everyone for telling me about birds and peanuts in shells. It is great to ask a question and get an answer. So add that to the list of things I know about--birds can eat shelled peanuts.

[LakeArenal]

1. Definitely can fly with peanuts in a shell.

I’m going broke feeding birds peanuts in a shell. 😳😊

[debm55]

2. Thank you, I thought it would be to heavy for them.

[LakeArenal]

4. Smaller birds like nuthatches can fly with them.

[CrispyQ]

9. We switched from in shell to shelled,

cuz the neighbor's dog is allergic to peanuts & the birds don't always drop the shells in our yard. We get them raw at the garden supply store. But since we switched we don't get crows anymore. They used to be a regular visitor in the morning, sometimes hammering away on our roof to open the shells. I wondered if they don't see the peanuts now.

[LakeArenal]

10. I always wondered where my shells wound up.

I guess at Deb55’s house.

[CrispyQ]

12. LOL

Hope no one's allergic. ~crosses fingers

[cbabe]

3. Crows can caw with treats in their beaks.

[debm55]

5. I was wondering too where they are getting the unshelled peanuts. I planted sunflowers last summer

and watched the most beautiful array of birds eating the seeds. So you don't think it's the blue jays. We do have owls and hawks here(turkeys also, but haven't seen them lately.)

[LakeArenal]

11. Before we moved from Wisconsin there were enough raw uneaten peanuts that I had peanut plants

Growing around the yard. (Our yard was 12.5 acres). I even produced a few of my own peanuts !!

[debm55]

8. I haven't seen any crows so far this year. When I took Dolly for a walk, I saw a turkey vulture

eating a rabbit. The bird was huge.

[RockRaven]

6. Oh yes, definitely. When I was a kid one of my neighbors would feed blue jays whole peanuts by hand.

He'd stand on his back porch with a whole peanut in his upturned palm, and they'd fly down, land on his hand, pick up a peanut, and fly away.

[debm55]

7. I was on the porch watching a femaie cardinal building her nest. A sparrow flew up to the nest. All

a sudden the male cardinal comes out of bushes and scares the sparrow away. Male flew back to the nest and female continued her building. It's relaxing watching them.

[FloridaBlues]

13. My neighborhood has a person that leaves out tons of whole

Peanuts. There’s a lot of shelled peanuts in yards best feed birds in the county!

[debm55]

14. Why not just feed wild bird feed? i have never never heard of giving birds a peanut in a shell. I

guess they like it. Though peanuts were for elephants. Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge with me.