My favourite part about blue jays is that they mimic other birds. So they'll make hawk calls to try and scare the other birds away.
Jackdaws in the UK do it as well, but they definitely hang around like little gangs of urchins on people’s verges and front lawns; humans amuse them.
(They also grieve, despite what people say; I saw our local gang of six once, reduced to five, making odd quiet noises and unwilling to leave one of their gang that had been struck by a car and was quite obviously dead).
Now excuse me while I pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.