Jay
I often wonder if it is the same bird that calls in for garden mealworms in the cold weather. Norwich - January 2024
A cold night and the Jay returns the following morning. Norwich - March 2023
The freezing weather returns and so does the Jay. Norwich - January 2023
Back again. Norwich - December 2022
During the freezing ten days in December, this Jay discovered that mealworms are available in the garden and is still visiting.
Norwich - December 2022
Norwich - December 2022
Busily caching nuts. Earlham Cemetery, Norwich - October 2021
Earlham Cemetery, Norwich - September 2021
Looking for food. Earlham Cemetery, Norwich - May 2021
Eating an acorn it had managed to retrieve. Earlham Cemetery, Norwich - March 2021
A somewhat unusual view. Earlham Cemetery - Norwich 2021
A Jay has discovered the garden is a good source of mealworms...
And just like at the allotment (see further down) the garden Blackbird seems to get along fine with the Jay. Norwich - February 2021
Keeping a low profile. Earlham Cemetery, Norwich - January 2021
A very cold looking Jay, which had fortunately remembered where it had cached at least one of its acorns.
Earlham Cemetery, Norwich - January 2020
Earlham Cemetery, Norwich - January 2020
Strange companions. The Blackbird flew into the tree, the Jay raised its crest; warning? questioning? greeting? Then the two sat silently side by side for a couple of minutes. Norwich - November 2019
A very obliging individual at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen - July 2019
Keeping a lookout from the treetop. Earlham Cemetery, Norwich - February 2019
Showing once again how effective, apart from the blue on the wing, the Jay's plumage is at blending in to a winter woodland. This individual was scanning the area beneath the tree. I wondered if it was trying to recall where it had cached its acorn supply.
Swanton Road, Norwich - January 2019
Swanton Road, Norwich - January 2019
When a pink and blue bird lands in your garden, you wonder how the plumage offers any camouflage. And then you see them (or, more accurately, don't see them until too late) in the leaf litter, blending in perfectly. By the Wensum, Norwich - January 2019
Looking for somewhere to hide an acorn...
... a bulging gullet...
... this is the place. Just off Newmarket Road on the path to the Yare - October 2017
Back for more mealworms -February 2017