It isn’t unusual for me to hear Blue Jays imitating Red-shouldered Hawks, but this morning about 11am I had one do it fairly close to my microphone so I was able to get this recording:
Interestingly, the bird was in a tree near my sparrow slick, and after it quit calling it dropped down to feed on the seed. I don’t know if this was an attempt to scare other birds away from the food source–I didn’t really see any other birds besides juncos and White-throated Sparrows on the sparrow slick at the time so not sure there was anything there to really scare. At any rate, an interesting recording.
