I'd much prefer having crows to jays. I feed 19 or 20 of them every
morning. They're much more polite than the 10 or 15 noisy, thieving jays.
Crows never come and scream at my door for peanuts and they warn all the
other birds when a neighborhood cat comes skulking around. This opinion may
be somewhat biased by the pet crows I've had.

John Shelton
Portland, Oregon