Bird popularity contest: Blue-jays vs. cardinals (Round Two)

[brentspeak]

Round One, a few months ago, went to Mr. and Ms. Cardinal. Here's Round Two of the "round robin" contest (heh heh).

[brentspeak]

1. kick

:kick:

[Maestro]

2. Both are handsome but I give the nod to the jays.

The blues, whites and blacks are just gorgeous!

[TZ]

4. What about the other types of Jays....

I would like to write in my favorite jay:Stellar's Jay (loved em when I visited Colorado)

[Maestro]

5. Stellar's are even prettier in my opinion, but

I love the Valley's (South Texas) Green Jay. Gorgeous jay that is!

[XemaSab]

9. I've seen all the jays

and each one is cooler than the last. :)

[janx]

30. They are such clowns!

We have them in the mountains here, too. And when my mother was still alive in Oregon, they used to hang upside down on her bird feeder chain in order to get seeds. They were too big to perch on the feeder.

[RushIsRot]

3. Jays are not only better looking, but they are far more intelligent!

[MrSlayer]

6. I prefer blue.

The jay is the winner here.

[femmocrat]

7. Cardinals for me.

IMO, there is nothing prettier than that flash of red against the snow. Jays are beautiful, but noisy and have terrible manners at the feeder!

[stuntcat]

13. yah.

If you watch jays at the feeders for a while you start to side with the more polite birds.

[XemaSab]

8. Cardinals bite

x(

[TZ]

16. You have personal knowledge of this?

If so I would love to hear about it..Never met anyone bitten by a cardinal before....:o

[XemaSab]

23. I do have personal knowledge

I have banded birds before, and cardinals are NOTORIOUS biters. x(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. I love 'em both...but jays make cool space alien sounds

That's what I love about them the most. :hi:

[Kat45]

11. It's cardinals fo rme.

Such an eye-catching red bird. Blue jays are pretty too, but I can't stand listening to them.

[stuntcat]

12. well the blue jays

MY blue jays anyway, can be so loud and mean sometimes and they're twice as big as the cardinals and three times the size of the sparrows! I voted for cardinals because the ones in my yard get bullied a lot, but I LOVE the blue jays :loveya:

[Redneck Socialist]

14. Cardinals

Blue Jays are the thugs and punks of the bird world. Though I have to admit Cardinals aren't too bright.

[underpants]

15. Blue Jays are dicks

They are

[Bzzzz]

17. My Sentiments...

exactly. They're assholes.

[GCP]

18. Agreed

They chase all the other birds away from the food :grr:

[Midlodemocrat]

31. Squirrel.

[Bravo Zulu]

19. Big Blue Jay in the back yard

[brentspeak]

28. Nice pic!

What camera/setting/lens?

[Bravo Zulu]

38. Nikon D70S

Nikkor 18-70 kit lense, I just used the automatic settings and played with the picture with the free program that you download from Nikon,I'm just a newbie with a digital camera and I'm just learning!

[bertha katzenengel]

20. both are amazingly gorgeous. but jays are assholes at the feeders. n/t

[Blue Diadem]

21. That's a difficult choice,

Blue-Jays are assholes..but geesh I gotta love them. What other bird screeches CAT CAT when a kitty is around? I can still see my dear old departed Sir Tom laying on his back, belly in the air, and a big Blue-Jay dive bombing him. They played that way for a while, finally both gave up.

Course, I can also still "feel" where a Momma Blue Jay got me when I accidently found one of her kids one day.

Cardinals are pretty..maybe a more peaceful bird.

[brentspeak]

22. Cardinals are running away with this one

Now I have to figure who'll be their opponent for next week: wrens, robins, or finches?

[MilesColtrane]

24. Blue Jays are pricks.

In my opinion, they are just Grackles in fancy coats.

[sasquatch]

25. HEAR, HEAR!

[sarge43]

26. Wouldn't go that far, but they are punks. n/t

[TZ]

27. More like Crows in blue feathers ....

They are actually related to some extent and even share some similar behaviors..Including being noisy, noisy birds!!!

[janx]

29. Look at this girl cardinal!

[sarge43]

32. I think the girls are even prettier than the boys. n/t

[janx]

34. Agreed. n/t

[janx]

33. Song

Cardinal:


http://www.learnbirdsongs.com/birdsong.php?id=3

[janx]

35. Blue Jay ...song?

http://www.learnbirdsongs.com/birdsong.php?id=5

[TZ]

36. Its inevitable that when I go camping...

I am woken up early early by those LOUD ass Blue Jays....Cardinals definitely have a nicer call...

[janx]

37. Most birds have a call, which is different from their song...

But with blue jays, ... ?

[SKKY]

39. Gotta give it up for the official bird of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky...

...being from there and all.