Owls go after Jays? Bring more owls.
The Sharp-shinned Hawks around here harass them. Pretty cool to watch five of six jays try to avoid getting caught.
I hate them with a passion and shoot them whenever I can with my pellet rifle.
The hate really surfaced several years ago when I saw a Jay trying to get into my chickadee nesting box on the day they were fledging. Thinking all the chicks had left, I ignored it. Several days later when I went out to clean out the box, I found a dead chick that had it's eyes pecked out.
It's been war ever since.
Last week while putting out my bird feeders and walking through the yard I saw a large circle of blue jay feathers (about two feet in diameter). I thought it must have been one of our ever present hawks that caught its dinner but it could have been one of our barred owls that live in our neighborhood. That bluejay did not have a good end.