While all my house sparrows are, unfortunately, thriving, I saw something new to me last week.  A bluejay was carrying a small mouse in its tallons and stopping to feed at low branches of evergreen trees.  I didn't see the jay catch the mouse, so it might have been a "found object," but I've not see jays eat mammals before.
 
I know that crows are omnivores and that jays are in the same family, but the mouse thing was new.  
 
jay in Salem, OH

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