Adult: generally bluish above, gray below with a contrastingly paler ... Both the Steller’s jay and the blue jay have conspicuous crests and wings and tail barred with black.

Gray squirrels are busy collecting and burying ... While my mind drifts to thinking about flying squirrels, the family of blue jays flies nearby and announces their arrival with a different ...

it’s the sudden change in the behavior of blue jays. Following a quiet summer of nesting and raising young, the newly independent parents, and their maturing offspring, turn their attention to ...