Like most birds, gray jay parents, or should I say, after being voted Canada’s national bird back in 2016 and subsequently renamed, ‘Canada jay’ parents have quite a time of it keeping their young fed. […]
No, not the rounders team from Toronto, but the real McCoy corvids that inhabit Canada East of the Rockies and the Eastern United States. These strikingly colourful, talkative birds have certainly intrigued and entertained me […]
We featured a Steller’s Jay quite a few years ago (see A Winters Jay) but I like this shot which shows a bit more of their character as ‘chancers’ with an attitude when it comes […]
Here’s another shot from a couple of years back – the California Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica) which I came across in Pinnacles National Monument in, (you guessed it) California. I was attracted by the electric blue […]
Today’s Friday Flashback is from December 23rd 2013 entitled ‘A Winter’s Jay’ – This’ll be my last Flashback for this year featuring the last post of our Flashback year – 2013. Original Text – “Here […]
A little over a year ago I posted a blog about the national bird of Canada debate, to let people know of the on going mission by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society to have a […]
Whiskey Jack is a colloquial or alternate name for the Gray Jay (Perisoreus canadensis) but here on the BC coast, many of us know it as the Whiskey Jack. Often found in alpine meadows and […]
Click to Enlarge Image Here is a Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) searching around in the snow for food. These birds range up and down the BC coast and will often gather in a large ‘party’ […]
