Scrub Jay perched on a brazilian pepper tree.
Blue jays are unquestionably one of the pretties of all songbird but boy are they arseholes. lol. My neighbor feeds birds all winter long and it’s comical to watch the blue jays strut in there and direct traffic around the feeder. Even the cardinals are easily intimidated by the jays.
only the crows and ravens put them in their place. I’ve heard they destroy other birds nests!
Out here it is the western orioles that out them in their place. Not that the orioles are bossy – they just won’t put up with it.
Years ago I witnessed a red tailed hawk capture and devour a blue jay. Talk about a racket.
I’ve seen red tails scare off crows that were mobbing smaller raptors, pretty neat that they look out for the little guys.
Janet captured the following on her camera today … an incoming bee, a Gulf Fritillary butterfly on Cleveland’s Sage, and a Monarch butterfly with Ladybug on yellow milkweed
Spectacular photos @Richard. Please don’t tell me those photos were taken with a smart phone.
Janet took them with her Pentax. The lens was at 2-6m and shutter speed 2000.
Yikes, I was expecting a photo of a bird. Cool photo though
That would keep me out of my orchard! Who do you call? Or do you just shoot?
They don’t stay long, only once was a warning shot required. Generally, it means you have to stop feeding the birds, they love the seed. That and I have to be sure to take my compost bucket to the compost pile regularly.