Feed Me Mum!
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…
Blue Jays
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…
The Chancer
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…
California Scrub-Jay
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…
Friday Flashback – A Winter’s Jay
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 -…
And The National Bird Is…
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…
Whiskey Jack
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…
A Winter’s Jay
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…