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Garrulus glandarius
Eurasian jay eating cherries in a cherry tree. The jay is a medium size corvid, 32 to 35 cm long, with a wingspan of 54 to 58 cm. It has very characteristic colours, including a white rump that is the basic detail to identify it in flight. It also has very striking blue colour in tertiary feathers. It is a very noisy bird. It is omnivorous feeding on a wide range of invertebrates including many pest insects, acorns (oak seeds, which it buries for use during winter), beech mast and other seeds, fruits such as blackberries and rowan berries, young birds and eggs, bats, and small rodents. It accumulate acorns during autumn to eat them during the hard winter. It is not a very sociable corvid, gathering in small family groups.
Spotted on a feral cherry tree, at a gallery forest on the río de la Venta, source of the Guadarrama river. Parque Nacional de Sierra de Guadarrama
Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/125 sec.; f/5.6; ISO Speed Rating: 800. Exposure Bias: 0 EV. Focal Length: 300.0 mm.
Spotted on Jun 5, 2015
Submitted on Jul 1, 2015
4 Comments
Thanks Ava
And very curious, alicelongmartin ! This one was watching me all the time
Nice series!
They are noisy and quarrelsome when they don't have their mouths full of food!