A pair of jays have been spending a lot of time in the garden. One of them is usually to be found under the peanut feeder, waiting for a woodpecker to drop a shower of peanut fragments. Even better is a whole peanut.
This is how a jay looks when all the peanuts have gone.
The jays had a nest in the top of a dead sycamore. I didn't know it was there until I heard the commotion as it was attacked by a carrion crow. I fear that the eggs or chicks didn't survive but at least the adults are still here. The crows have been in my very bad books since I caught them chasing the sparrowhawk weeks ago and they know it.
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