Feeding Wild Birds

[TwoCrows]

I keep thinking about blue jays when you said a baby crying. They make so many odd noises. Could it be a jay of some sort?

Blue Jays are great mimics.

And their young do cry like babies, high squeeling.

 

[ValerieJ]

I keep thinking about blue jays when you said a baby crying. They make so many odd noises. Could it be a jay of some sort?

We have a ton of Steller Jays. You must be right on that.

 

[alinas2010]

We have a ton of Steller Jays. You must be right on that.

Lucky! They’re sooo pretty I would love to see one.

And their young do cry like babies, high squeeling.

Not too long ago a family of blue jays were ridiculously obnoxious here. The “babies” just wanted fed I guess I don’t think younger ones sound quite as obnoxious as in this video, I could be wrong, though!

 

[ValerieJ]

I decided to go exploring the sounds of the Steller's Jays and found this page in All About Birds. I end up there a lot. I was amazed at all their calls.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Stellers_Jay/sounds

I'm sure now that that was what I'm hearing. Also, some of the other calls have led me to believe there was another familiar bird in the area. For example, one call on this site sounds exactly like an Osprey. Sooo, not every time I hear an osprey means there is one around.

 

[alinas2010]

I decided to go exploring the sounds of the Steller's Jays and found this page in All About Birds. I end up there a lot. I was amazed at all their calls.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Stellers_Jay/sounds

I'm sure now that that was what I'm hearing. Also, some of the other calls have led me to believe there was another familiar bird in the area. For example, one call on this site sounds exactly like an Osprey. Sooo, not every time I hear an osprey means there is one around.

So many different sounds, it really is amazing!

Blue Jays are great mimics.

I frequently hear the blue jays imitate hawks here. They keep my on my toes.

 

[TwoCrows]

Lucky! They’re sooo pretty I would love to see one.

Not too long ago a family of blue jays were ridiculously obnoxious here. The “babies” just wanted fed I guess I don’t think younger ones sound quite as obnoxious as in this video, I could be wrong, though!

My Jays are dealing with screaming babies too, they are loud with their cries of "FEED ME, FEED ME!"

 

[ValerieJ]

You are all so lucky to have babies in your midst. Near as I can tell, these birds all nest across the river because there are no houses there. I did have a robin's nest in an apple tree a few years ago, but that's the only one I know of. What we have are squirrel nests and lots of baby squirrels right now.

 

[R2elk]

I have so many robin nests it isn't funny.

 

[fuzzi]

Beginning to hear a bird here and there now. Happy about that.

However, there is something making an unfamiliar sound, kind of like a cat's weak meow but not scratchy like a cat. Maybe like the whimpering of a baby just waking up. So hard to describe, but it's driving me crazy because i cannot figure out what I'm hearing. I've been hearing it for a couple months, coming from the neighbor's yard, and seems to be coming from the trees, so I thought it must be a bird.

When I ask Merlin to identify it by sound, every time it cries he says it's a Cedar Waxwing. When I listen to what that bird is supposed to sound like, this isn't it at all. Yet, Merlin has identified it as such a half a dozen times. Anyone familiar with that noise? I think I need to try to record the call itself and figure out how to play it on here. No idea how to do that though.

Do you know of any birds that might sound like a very light cat's meow?

BTW, I've never seen a Cedar Waxwing here, but Merlin hears them all the time.

Catbirds make a mewing sound.

 

[ValerieJ]

Catbirds make a mewing sound.

That was the first bird I thought of, but listening to it on Merlin and All About Birds, I never heard the sound I was hearing in the yard, so I ruled that one out.