Kim Varney Chandler of Hancock, New Hampshire, reports an unusual behavior by the blue jays in her yard. “I hear this banging on the wall of my house and I think, ‘What in the world is that?’ ...

Q: The blue jays just go crazy when I put out peanuts ... A bird identification app said it was a great horned owl but I'm wondering about a red-tailed hawk. What do you think?

Harassed by blue jays, the owl was flying from tree to tree, keeping to the area around a white pine where a squirrel and her young were nesting in a box built to house a screech owl family.