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This bird is on the federal endangered species list. A variant of the Scrub Jay, the Florida Scrub Jay exists only in Florida and it's habitat areas are decreasing. This bird doesn't seem to mind approaching, I suspect that's because people have been in the habit of feeding it as well, but I've seen that behavior from other non-Florida Scrub Jays as well. It was nice to see this bird on my trip to Florida, even better to get a nice shot of one.
Taken 4 April 2019 in Florida.
Explore April 13, 2023
The passerine birds of the genus Aphelocoma include the scrub jays and their relatives. They are New World jays found in Mexico, western Central America and the western United States, with an outlying population in Florida. Wikipedia
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I have been under the weather with the common cold and have stayed home and taken way more photos of backyard birds than I know what to do with so if your are getting tired of seeing hummingbird and California Scrub-Jay photos you might want to skip the photos I am posting today, except of perhaps the quail. I don't like the white backgrounds IMG_1364
More birding from my car. I've found some spots on the WSU campus that birds like to congregate if no one is nearby. And a car is a good blind.
Alzacola del Kalahari, Kalahari Scrub-robin, Cercotrichas paena.
Especie # 1.438
Etosha National Park
Namibia
I happened to visit a friend and we were sitting in her backyard talking... when all of a sudden this Scrub Jay came to get a peanut. But he saw there was company and stayed long enough so I could get this shot and fly off. I've never photographed a scrub jay before. I thought he was beautiful.
A family of California-Scrub Jays showed up in my backyard a few minutes after I put out peanuts for them. First time I have had 5 of them in my yard at the same time. Yakima County, Washington. IMG_5435
Lifer - woohoo! (species I've never seen before). This is a California Scrub Jay, juvenile. Apparently last year the ornithology world was turned on its ear when what was known as the Western Scrub Jay was divided into two distinct species, the California Scrub Jay and the Woodhouse's Scrub Jay. The California variety was new to me. Seen in the Oregon Gardens in Silverton, OR
Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park, CA
The island scrub jay (Aphelocoma insularis) is endemic to Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Southern California. Of the over 500 breeding bird species in the continental U.S. and Canada, it is the only insular endemic landbird species, meaning it is restricted to a geographical island.
The island is a nature reserve, the eastern 24% being administered by National Park Service as the part of the Channel Islands National Park and the rest of the island by the Nature Conservancy. Fossil remains for island scrub jays have been found on Santa Rosa and San Miguel Islands.
We got lucky and found a family of Scrub Jays at Jonathan Dickinson State Park. We had to go thru some scrub but it was worth the hike.
Taken last winter in the Venice Florida area, not an easy bird to see anymore and they are usually banded.
Found with head protruding out of a roadside drain on the driveway in torrential rain. Cairns FNQ. 2 metre sub-adult male.
Macro Mondays August 25/25: scrubware
We've had this old scrub brush for decades. It got a lot more use when I worked on bicycles, cars, lawn mowers, renovations, and such, and when we both worked in the garden.
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Doug Harrop Photography • October 6, 1984
Union Pacific 6908 leads the WPV through Weber Canyon west of Gateway, Utah.
Found with head protruding out of a roadside drain on the driveway in torrential rain. Cairns FNQ. 2 metre sub-adult male.
A common enough bird in the neighborhood, but for some reason not a frequent visitor to the yard. This one has been coming around a fair bit, lately, though. In other notes, there are still a lot of goldfinches, and they've been joined by a large number of golden-crowned sparrows and an increased number of siskins. There have been a couple of townsend warblers, some golden-crowned kinglets, a ruby-crowned kinglet, the first house finch since summer, and all of the usual suspects. California/scrub jay, backyard Olympia.
Note (October 20): I just saw the first morning dove in the yard in the last ten years or so. They're fairly common in the neighborhood, but I think my yard has grown too enclosed for them to feel comfortable. It's the only one of my fifty-six confirmed bird species in the yard that I've never got a good photo of.
nice to find the scrub jay on my first day to search for it, The light was so poor in the woods, I didn't realize I had found it until I put it onto computer
Photographed at my home, West Valley area, Yakima County, Washington. I have been seeing the Cedar Waxwings every day now for more than a week. They are eating the dried up fruit on my mountain ash tree. The Song Sparrow, an infrequent visitor to my yard has been around for several days and i see Scrub-Jays every day. IMG_0261
Fall of 2022 went by so fast I was only able to capture a few images. This turned out to be one of my favorites. This scrub pine standing tall in the middle of a bright contrast of dogwood, oak, and the likes while they put on their best fall show.
I think this is the first time I have seen this Jay since they changed it's name from Western Scrub Jay to California Scrub Jay.
I got a message letting me know that one had been spotted in the northwest corner of the Aldergrove Athletic Park. Unfortunately when I arrived it was foggy but I did manage to spot it fairly quickly and I was able to photograph it until some dog walker's animals started barking and the California Scrub Jay fled.
Not so much a rare bird as an uncommon one. I have seen one every year for the last 4 years in the lower mainland. I suspect they use to live in this area but got driven out by other birds and development.