[TN-Bird] Fwd: Blue Jays and Honey Bees

From: knoxmartin2@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:46:43 -0400




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From: KnoxMartin2@xxxxxxx
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Sent: Sat, May 15, 2010 8:04 pm
Subject: Blue Jays and Honey Bees


I have a single bee hive, and I have been observing Blue Jays feeding on 
he bees daily for the past three weeks. Up to six individual birds will hang 
round the hive feeding not only on old/injured non-flighted bees around the 
ive, but also catching flying bees either leaving or returning to the 
ive. The birds take the bees to nearby trees and remove wings and legs before 
ating them. They seemed unconcerned with the stinger. Only jays have been 
bserved. Are there any other birder-beekeepers who have observed similar 
ehavior?
Knox Martin
emphis
helby County, Tennessee
The South is a land that has known sorrows; it is a land that has broken 
he ashen crust and moistened it with tears; a land scarred and riven by the 
lowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead; but a land of 
egend, a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic memories. To that land 
very drop of my blood, every fiber of my being, every pulsation of my heart, 
s consecrated forever. I was born of her womb; I was nurtured at her breast; 
nd when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I may be pillowed upon 
er bosom and rocked to sleep within her tender encircling arms. Edward Carmack
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