Steller's Jay with acorn in beak

Crikey....look at him! So different to our Jays...do you remember them Alandra, pink and buff with a flash of blue?

He is a beautiful specimen of a Stellar Jay....Great picture, tongue and all..you have captured the intensity of that blue color

He is beautiful!

thankyou all, Skippy, Pansypotter and Janey. Sorry to say, Janey, I don't recall the jays over there very well. I mainly recall the robins, & blue tits etc that fed on my grandma's suet hanging on an arch in her back garden. I was only 12 when we left England, so hadn't really travelled very far afield on my own at that stage. These fellas and gals are very pretty and quite entertaining to watch - greedy too, as you can see here :) They aren't around much right now, as they become shy at nesting time, oddly enough, - normally they are very cheeky.