Although the blue jay is considered to be a permanent resident of the Adirondacks, it can choose to fly south for the winter if it hasn’t identified – or cached – a reliable food source. That’s why blue jays can be seen almost every day during some winters, and hardly at all during others.
Tom and Jackie Kalinowski investigate what keeps blue jays here over the winter, and what causes them to migrate south. Join them for their seventeenth episode of Nature in the Adirondacks:

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