Mark Twain I suspect, spent some time watching and listening to Blue Jays. I’ve shared his writing on the jay before where he called them a “vocabularized geyser”. Only a man who has hung around a few jays would know this…that they have such a wide array of calls, chirps, alarms, and rumblings, that one can only stand in amazement at their ability to discuss what’s on their mind. Sounds a lot like Mark Twain to me…and I suspect he would take that sentiment as a great compliment.