Sorry to hear that. Since I toss peanuts one at a time, I can better control who gets them. I try to scare the crows off and the jays seem to know that they are "allowed" to swoop in and pick them up. At one feeding site, I will sometimes have a huge group of jays kind of playing musical chairs, as the next one down in the local pecking order grabs his/hers, they all move up one position and wait for the next nut to be tossed. But at another location, I had a sad story. Some low brush and overgrowth of vines and shrubs on a fence was stripped off and cut down. After that the female of the pair I'd been feeding there stopped coming. The male still swoops over almost as soon as I arrive . . . flying to my car mirror and landing to wait for me to hand him one, and yesterday he had a juvenile with him who also learned to fly up to the mirror for a handout. Whether the female is still around and just letting Dad do the training, or whether she is gone for good, I don't know. In any case, I understand about crows. The ones around here seem to have become more aggressive this year, perhaps indicating a depleted food supply? They seem less likely to be scared off by my advances than they were a year ago.
