These smarty-pants-of-flight will also imitate hawk calls to scare off other birds! Blue jays are complex social creatures, too. They travel in pairs or family groups, rarely flying off on their own.

About 10 blue jays were causing quite a ruckus on the deck ... Are they having fun teasing a larger bird that is fairly helpless? Jay chased hawk, then hawk chased jay, over and over again. At one ...