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January 9, 20180 found this helpful
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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.

 
June 2, 20181 found this helpful

WHere do you get a plastic owl? Sounds terrific!

 
April 22, 20180 found this helpful
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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.

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(The motion detector cannot operate through a solid object like a closed window pane.) Since this is an apartment building the chaser had to be researched and set to its least sensitive level so as not to send every dog in the building into a howl of agony.

 
May 22, 20180 found this helpful
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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!

 

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June 2, 20180 found this helpful
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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.

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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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Followed closely by this one www.pinterest.com/.../

If I come up with my own version, I will post it!

 
June 3, 20180 found this helpful

What about the other birds....the cardinals and the groesbecks. And the finches and sparrows....

 
May 25, 20190 found this helpful

Yes I would like to know that also. The blue jays are taking over and I want them gone and dont want to scare my chickadees and cardinals away

 
May 25, 20190 found this helpful

Yes I would like to know that also. The blue jays are taking over and I want them gone and dont want to scare my chickadees and cardinals away

 
December 6, 20200 found this helpful
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rubber snake on the window sill worked for me and cardinals that kept pecking and flying into the picture window in the spring.

 
May 15, 20151 found this helpful

Try spraying WD40 around the area. It works for pigeons here in Australia.

 
April 26, 20200 found this helpful

so you poisoned yourself and other animals?

 
July 1, 20210 found this helpful

I don't want to spray WD 40 on my huckleberry bushes......can I spray the perimeter of the area? will this keep the jays away?

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What an obnoxious bird :( Won't the WD40 keep the other birds away too?

 
June 6, 20172 found this helpful

Invite the New York Yankees to your house. Blue Jays usually lose the battle when they are in town

 
January 4, 20210 found this helpful

Very true unfortunately. Good memories of 92 & 93 though

 
July 16, 20171 found this helpful

I'm having the same issue except I have 10-12 Blue Jays and they're tearing up my flower baskets and they are just loud and obnoxious and have chased away all my other birds Eastern Towhee and Hermit Thrush among others...all the really cool songbirds that I enjoy. I don't have ANY feeders out and never have. I read another article that informed me that they don't always migrate so we may be stuck with the jerk birds until they have nothing else to eat.

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It also said Blue Jays love acorns and I'm surrounded by pines....I don't understand why they're here...I haven't seen Blue Jays here since we've moved in 5 years ago. Now I have a dozen of them...

 
May 23, 20180 found this helpful

I shoot bottle rockets in the trees. NOT AT THE BIRDS. Then they leave.

 
June 2, 20180 found this helpful

There's a nest just a side my bathroom window with a family of blue jays they never they weren't a problem until today I went to my shed to grab my bike was walking back up and they started attacking me now I just go to the window and they're scooping in towards the windows and the one even when I was went to the washroom came up and was hanging off the screen what do I do

 
February 25, 20210 found this helpful

Blue Jays are hurting our little dog who is now terrified of going into the yard. They attack us when we are mowing the lawn & peck at our little dog & caused her bleeding twice last year twice. This year, I bought 3 plastic owls (1 with a moving head) to discourage them from building a nest in our rose bushes.

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This morning, I found one sitting right by the owl looking at me. Based on an answer, I just tried WD40 to hopefully stop them from coming near the area that they built a nest last year.

 
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July 28, 20210 found this helpful

owl did NOT work for me.........going to try the WD 40.......sadly it will also keep away the other sweet birds that I like to have around.

 
May 6, 20220 found this helpful

The Robins in my yard have been attacking and chasing the BlueJays away, protecting their territory but those BlueJays haven't left yet. There are 3 of them and they cleaned out my platform feeder that the Cardinals usually eat from.

 

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