I know about eating gravel, but these were rocks that would likely be a bit
large to swallow, and probably 5-8 in number completely filling his beak...
We have this family of 6 scrub jays that live here year round and I have
never seen this. Just seemed odd to me. We raise chickens and they have
to eat gravel as well. But, the peck at it and this jay was collecting
rocks.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Jeff and Lauretta Young <
jeffandlaurettayoung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think all birds “eat” gravel or pebbles for their gizzards to grind up
food…
Lauretta
On Mar 28, 2016, at 8:55 AM, Pat <pat.truhn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:morning one of them is picking up pea-sized pebbles, from the ground, like
We usually have 5-6scrub jays at our feeding table every day. This
his entire beak is stuffed with little rocks! Any thoughts on what he is
doing?
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