Bluejay and Mockingbird Watching Something
by Linda Brody
Title
Bluejay and Mockingbird Watching Something
Artist
Linda Brody
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Bluejay and Mockingbird Watching Something
We have a small lake in our miniature outdoor garden railroad, and the birds take the opportunity to bathe. Both this Blue Scrub Jay and Mockingbird are just out of the water, fresh and clean. The Scrub Jay is raggedy as he is still wet.
If you've been hearing an endless string of 10 or 15 different birds singing outside your house, you might have a Northern Mockingbird in your yard. These slender-bodied gray birds apparently pour all their color into their personalities. They sing almost endlessly, even sometimes at night, and they flagrantly harass birds that intrude on their territories, flying slowly around them or prancing toward them, legs extended, flaunting their bright white wing patches.
The California scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica), is a species of scrub jay native to western North America. It ranges from southern British Columbia throughout California west of the Sierra Nevada. The California scrub jay was once lumped with the island scrub jay, and Woodhouse's scrub jay, collectively called the western scrub jay. The group was also lumped with the Florida scrub jay; the taxon was then called, simply, the scrub jay. The California scrub jay is nonmigratory and can be found in urban areas, where it can become tame and will come to bird feeders. While many refer to scrub jays as "blue jays", the blue jay is a different species of bird entirely.
The Western Scrub-Jay combines deep azure blue with dusty gray-brown and white. The rounded, crestless head immediately sets it apart from Blue Jays and Steller's Jays. These birds are a fixture of dry shrublands, oak woodlands, and pinyon pine-juniper forests, as well as conspicuous visitors to backyards. Western U.S. to Mexico.
Taken in Orange County, CA.
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Appreciated Works from All Mediums
FAA Bird Portraits
Wild Birds of the World
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October 14th, 2014
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