FEEDING THE SQUIRRELS???

 Earlier this fall I was complaining about the cheeky little squirrel stealing from my bird feeder. Come to find out he had good reason. So today I took my daily handful of peanuts and threw them out by the back door as usual.  Since I have been feeding him/them the nuts have been gone within the hour. 

 

Today for some reason, I went from the back door over to near my kitchen window to do something and low and behold who do I see helping themselves to the peanuts?

A bunch of Blue Jays were swooping in one after another grabbing peanuts. 

By the time I got my camera almost all the peanuts were gone.  

I used to feed peanuts to the Jays in the winter, when we had our house on Henderson Highway.  And they would wedge the peanuts into the smaller limbs of the trees to split them open and in some cases leave them there as a stash for later.  I'm surprised the squirrels didn't find them and steal them back.  

But they didn't.  Come spring our "Oak" trees would be loaded with "Peanuts" instead of "Acorns".