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The Blue Jay Bird mainly feeds on nuts and seeds such as acorns, soft fruits, arthropods, and occasionally small vertebrates. It typically finds food in trees, shrubs, and the ground, though it sometimes catches insects from the air while in flight. It builds an open cup nest in the branches of a tree, which both sexes participate in constructing. The clutch can contain two to seven eggs, which are blueish or light brown with brown spots. Young are altricial, and are brooded by the female for 8–12 days after hatching. They may remain with their parents for one to two months before leaving the nest. (Source ~ Wikipedia)

They do not frequent the feeders close to the house but will go to the one down by the lake here at our home in Southeast Missouri USA.

Nikon D40X with Nikon 300mm VR lens on max zoom and manual focus.

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Comments

  • mom23girls
    mom23girls4 months ago

    Wonderful capture!!

  • Thank you

    – barnsis

  • NordicBlackbird
    NordicBlackbird4 months ago

    Cracker, Byron! Gorgeous bird, beautifully framed :-)

  • Thank you Nat

    – barnsis

  • David  Hughes
    David Hughes4 months ago

    Great capture, Byron! I have went an bought a feeder, so i can get maybe some bird captures myself. Or should i say learn how to capture them!

  • Thank you David, sent you a bubble ☺

    – barnsis

  • Pauline Evans
    Pauline Evans4 months ago

    Great catch! I always remember the sitting in a tree next door dive-bombing our neighbor’s cat as it tried to climb the tree. LOL Nature watching is FUN!

  • Thank you, there are no cats around here but I have seen them do the same thing to squirrels

    – barnsis

  • Dyle Warren
    Dyle Warren4 months ago

    Nice shot of this beautiful bird and great composition…

  • Thank you very much

    – barnsis

  • WhiteDove Studio kj gordon
    WhiteDove Stud...4 months ago

    another cutie brah’…………

  • Thank you Bro

    – barnsis

  • Tim Denny
    Tim Denny4 months ago

    Nice one Bryon, still don’t have one of these guys

  • Thank you Tim, they are one of the harder ones to get an image of.

    – barnsis

  • Sheryl Langston
    Sheryl Langston4 months ago

    Beautiful. Did you use a texture for the background?

  • Thank you No that effect comes for the DOF focus on the bird which causes all of the far background features to blur into the general color they are.

    – barnsis

  • LoreLeft27
    LoreLeft274 months ago

    beautiful really beautiful capture

  • Thank you very much

    – barnsis

  • Enivea
    Enivea4 months ago

    At first I also thought you’d added texture! Quite amazing natural effect!

  • I always get this blurred effect with I shoot with the long lens and focus on one subject. Kind of nice that it is that easy and it lets you put the emphasis were you want it.

    – barnsis