A carnivorous jay

[question everything]

A few years ago I was dismayed, and posted here, when a jay mauled a house finch and carried it away.

Yesterday a jay was poking in the snow and carried a dead (not poisoned) mouse.

We keep enclosed mouse traps in the basement where we (spouse) dispose of the victim and the trap can be used again.

Usually it is the crow is waiting for breakfast but perhaps could not find it in the snow..

[think4yourself]

1. They're big bullies

here at my feeders.

[stopdiggin]

2. there are a lot of birds (and animal species as well) that are a LOT more opportunistic

and adaptive in their diet than we are generally led to believe.

And I think jays (might) belong, roughly, to the same family as crows, rooks .. ? So, yeah ... A well deserved 'reputation'.

[Goonch]

3. ;-{) Blue Jay Rat Snake

[Walleye]

4. Blue Jays will raid hummingbird nests

[Zackzzzz]

6. Owls have raided the Scrub Jays nest

[jaxxon20]

5. Jays and Crows

Jays and crows are both members of the Corvidae family of birds. Similar behavior