B.J. Loves Peanuts!

Hello again!  An update from my "Urban Backyard Wildlife" series!

This is just a short fun look at a new garden friend we've made this spring. B.J. isn't as trusting as Little Squirrel, but maybe he/she will be in the future. There are a pair of jays in the oak tree which is about fifty feet from our house. I don't know for sure which is the male and which is the female, but they both take the peanuts we set out by the window.

I was outside when I snapped this picture.  I stayed for awhile, but B.J. would not come over to the window. So...I went into the kitchen.

B.J. came over to the window and peered in to see what I was doing. There is a second peanut behind the window mullion.

And in a flash, B.J. grabbed the peanut and headed back to the oak tree! The jays place the peanut in the crotch of two tree limbs and peck the peanut shell open...something I would never have expected!

See you again soon with more gardening items.