I have this blue jay that sits by a window of my house and pecks at it. Sometimes it starts pecking around five in the morning. It's always waking me up and it continues to peck throughout the day. I use to have mourning doves that had nests by my front door that have been scared off along with sparrows and other birds because of the Blue Jay. Now there are atleast three birds taking up a home around my house. Someone help me get rid of these birds.
I put a 2' plastic horned owl in the crook of the tree right next to our deck where they insisted on building a nest. They were not happy. But it didnt keep them from having "parties" at the dog's dish. For that, I got another 2' plastic owl with a swiveling head. I mounted him to a board & once a week I move him to a different spot around the yard. It took 3 days to get them to vacate the premises.
I had some pesky Blue Jays try to rebuild a nest on my fire escape, right under the last steel step. What finally worked were CDs and an electronic bird chaser. The CDs were tied with string to the underside of the step. If they didn't scare them the motion knocked into them. The bird chaser is a compact unit that can operate on batteries and could be mounted with adhesive to my ourside window sill.
I suggest outer sun screens. I have some that are a light tan color from the hardware store. You can buy a roll of screen and frame lengths with rubber insert rope and a roller tool to make your own of any size. Not sure if framing came with the corners it snaps together with. Looks nice, and keeps the house cooler in the summer too!
Oh are blue jays mean...they were nested in a dense bush near my front door a few years ago and tried several times to attack my dog and me when we were on our morning outside puppy pit stop. Very scary.
The short term solution was to go out the back door and avoid the site...but that didn't help the mailman and others who use the area near the nest....just had to warn everyone to be careful.
My proactive solution after the experience was...after the babies were gone from the nest...tying CDs (compact disks) to strings and hanging them from the branches.
When they reflect in the sun, the birds avoid it. It works! They look terrible hanging from the bush in the front yard...so I am working on a prettier way...just haven't come up with a good one yet. There are some ideas on Pinterest, but they look too complicated!
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If I come up with my own version, I will post it!
rubber snake on the window sill worked for me and cardinals that kept pecking and flying into the picture window in the spring.
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How do we get rid of blue jays?
You could try hanging old CD disks in the trees and bushes where they like to roost. The glitter should frighten them away. We don't even try to get rid of ours as having Blue Jays is better than having Mocking Birds.
CD's in trees are a waste of time for jays. They figure out very quickly that it isn't a threat, and they go on about their business.
I would much rather have mocking birds to blue jays. They are so obnoxious I just want to shoot them. If I scare the jays, the other birds will leave too. This has been going on for years...
How do you get rid of blue jays that are eating all of the chicks in my birdhouses? I enjoy watching the baby sparrows grow in the birdhouses.
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I have this blue jay that sits by a window of my house and pecks at it. Sometimes it starts pecking around five in the morning. It's always waking me up and it continues to peck throughout the day. I use to have mourning doves that had nests by my front door that have been scared off along with sparrows and other birds because of the Blue Jay.
