Friday, November 30, 2007

June, Western Scrub Jay


Western Scrub Jay
Originally uploaded by Bill Walker.
Hidden Villa, Los Altos, CA [June 2007]

As a member of the Bay Area Bird Photographers, I keep up with hot tips posted on our local email list. This cherry tree at Hidden Villa was mentioned on our list as providing both an abundant food source and a beautiful photographic backdrop for robins, jays and grosbeaks, who seemed to take turns at the tree, giving me a chance to photograph each one, like students lining up for yearbook pictures. The California scrub-jay is intensely blue and white, where the interior race is much more muted in color.

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