Steller's Jay Feeding Fledges (Cyanocitta stelleri)

Very cool action shot!

Lovely action shot Katy, great birds to have in your yard, you lucky girl.

Thank you both for your nice comments!

Mali, they are beautiful birds but they are also the most raucous of the jays around here and literally don't shut up all day long. And it's not a pleasant "raucous," like singing -- it's just this bellering "raaaaaaak raaaaaaak raaaaaaak" for hours on end. Harsher than the begging call of the young, closer to their alarm call when a raptor's aloft. Or when two duke it out over a peanut they both want.

The town I live in is carved out of the middle of the Los Padres National Forest, so all the yards here are pretty much left in their natural state. I also live on a greenbelt with permanent streams that entice a pretty good variety of wildlife, from black bears, fox, coyote, bobcat, deer and (reportedly though sadly I haven't yet seen one) mountain lion, to over 70 species of birds that I've seen from or in my yard. Not as big a list as I had when I lived in the woods of north-central Arizona at 7,000 ft., but I also don't feed here in the summertime due to the bears. Defo do NOT want one of those guys on my deck!

Amen to the Stellar's Jay not shutting up all day long! I have them with me all year round and it gets on your nerves at times! That said, I have never had the opportunity to see the fledglings being fed, such a wonderful moment you caught -- well done! :t:

Nice behavior capture. They must be like the Blue Jays here...noisy.

phil

I'll take the noise to have a few around here! Great action shot.

Thanks DownyWP, Phil and Al for the nice comments!

Hey Al, I'll trade you one Steller's for one Blue Jay. I'd love to see one of the latter -- never have, can you believe it? They just don't show up in AZ or CA (at least not where I've ever lived or visited).

WOW this is really beautiful, over here only the migrating bee-eaters are blue other birds do not come in blue, i just love blue.

Thanks very much, Ammadoux! North America is blessed with a bunch of different blue-colored species of birds. I'll check my gallery, and if I don't have in there some other species that I know I've shot, I'll post those eventually.

thanks my friend. will look forward for them

oh yes i forgot one of our common garden bird is the Nile-valley sunbird the male is blue and violet on the breeding plumage, but a kind of metallic blue not the blue for famous N. American birds have, which i like LOL.