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Blue jay bolero!
Zackiedawg

Blue jay bolero! (Cyanocitta cristata)

A blue jay in my backyard, performing an elaborate jumping dance, along with gurgling rattle noises and clucks in between loud hawk-like screams and bobbing of its head and dipping legs...all of which seemed to be about retaining the bird bath for itself! I wanted to catch some of the jumping performance, and happened to catch one moment that looked like it was performing a bolero dance.
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Habitat
Forest,
Location
Boca Raton, Florida
Date taken
June 25, 2016
Scientific name
Cyanocitta cristata
Equipment used
Sony A6300, Sony FE 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 G OSS lens
Shutter speed, aperture & ISO
300mm, F5.6, 1/1000 shutter, 500 ISO
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KC Foggin
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Zack! This is one great fly by image of this Jay captured with awesome detail!
 

Media information

Category
North America
Added by
Zackiedawg
Date added
View count
627
Comment count
4

Image metadata

Device
SONY ILCE-6300
Aperture
ƒ/5.6
Focal length
300.0 mm
Exposure time
1/1000 second(s)
ISO
500
Flash
Off, did not fire
Filename
163578653.Mn2NE2lx.WaGreenCayA6326jun16877.jpg
File size
365 KB
Date taken
Sat, 25 June 2016 7:08 PM
Dimensions
1400px x 933px

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