So Jays like peanuts? Well, I tried putting peanuts out for years, and the Cardinals do make life unpleasant for the Jays. *sigh* Even so, I love 'em all. I just wish I knew how to grow peanuts. I have this tendency to lose 80% of the nutty stuff I plant, but OTOH, Ma Nature saves at least 20% of the trees.
I buy the ones in the bag. The ones that are still in the shell.
It'd make for a great topic, beautress, so many cool things happen in the yard. I have a video on my desktop computer some place, I set up a pocket digital camera on my step next to a pile of peanuts I threw out there. The Jays kept coming in and out, maybe 4 of them?
Then there's the story of the skunks. The mama skunk brought her little ones to my apple tree and they partook of the low hanging fruit. They come out at night, so you have to be lucky enough to catch them in the act. The cardinals will stay near the regular bird feeders if there's sunflower seed in it.Dontl get the kind with the corn in it, the black birds will show up and clean you out in a matter of minutes and tear the place up before they leave. I usually send the dog, so that's kept them at bay, so long as I catch em in the act, they'll scope out the place fro ma distant tree forst, to see if the dog's put there, they're getting smarter about it.
Then a goose laid eggs under a big ornamental grass in my yard. Once they got big enough, she walked them to the pond, it was cool, except for cutting grass, I couldn't cut near where she was nesting. The way I found her was she went after me when I walked in her immediate area. lol. Let's just say she was, very, very, unhappy.