Finally, after hearing this call ring through the mountains of North Carolina all these years I captured clear video of a Blue Jay making their legendary squeaky gate, rusty pump handle or rusty swing set or close line call – if you have blue jays you know what I mean. What is interesting is I have a lot of blue jays in Florida and I have never heard this call in there before.
This is late April 2024 when Jay family groups should be broken up into mating pairs and going low profile to raise their broods so I'm not sure what's going on here with four Jays high in the top of a newly blooming tree – 3 of them patiently listening and watching. By the time I got my camera on a tripod and found the right blue jay to focus on it had been calling continuously for 5 minutes and continued calling for 5 more minutes. So 10 minutes of continuous squeaky gate call delivered with full body involvement – which looks kind of exhausting. You can also hear some blue jays in the distance also making the pump handle call. This particular call probably travels the greatest distance in the valley.
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