Volume 13 • April 15, 2022
Welcome to 🦜 The Flyer 🦜 by Flying Colors
Hello again! Each Friday we share original content written by the Flying Colors team, fascinating stories & tidbits from the world of birding, curated products, epic bird photos, and more. ✨
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Bird of the Week: The Blue Jay
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Found in most of the United States and Canada
Blue Jays may be common in the US, but they’re still always a stunning sight. These songbirds stand out against any winter or spring scene with their aquamarine and royal blue plumage and perky crests. (And they rest their crests when they’re calm and enjoying time in their tight knit family units.) They can be easily identified by their loud “jay jay” calls which can sound like a scream or a jeer, and they can impressively mimic the calls of hawks.
If you’d like more Blue Jays to visit your backyard, try a tray or hopper feeder on a post filled with peanuts, sunflower seeds, and suet—Blue Jays love to forage.
Fun fact: Though Blue Jays commonly migrate, the reasoning behind their erratic migration patterns is still a mystery.
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A Product We Love
Unique and worthy products from the wide world of birding you might enjoy
Birds of Interest Scratch Off Chart. Keep track of the Swans, Common Barn Owls, and Peregrine Falcons you spot with this fun illustrated poster. Scratch off an icon every time you see or hear every bird on the list. $14.99
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Your Shot
An amazing bird photo taken by one of our community members. Submit yours to hello@flyingcolors.co to be considered for an upcoming edition!
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No Fillers or Mess, Only the Good Stuff
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O jay —
Blue-jay! —
What are you trying to say?
I remember, in the spring
You pretended you could sing;
But your voice is now still queerer,
And as yet you've come no nearer
To a song.
– “O Jay” by George Parsons Lathrop
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About Us
Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality to nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages. Each specialty blend and single origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.
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