Steller’s jay with gray crest and blue wings perched on a fence in the sunshine

Steller’s jay basking in the sunshine.

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Steller’s Jay swallows a peanut then started looking for more food before flying off.

Jays store food in an expandable, stretchy area of their throat and upper esophagus known as a gular pouch or sublingual pouch.

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Steller’s Jay holds a peanut in its beak

Steller’s Jay quickly grabs a peanut

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Steller’s Jay with gray crest and blue wings

Steller’s Jay keeps an eye on me

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Steller’s Jay freezes on a fence

Steller’s Jay steps into a pose

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Sometimes I sit at the #GardenFeeder just so you humans can admire me.

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Steller’s Jay with gray crest and banded blue wings

Steller’s Jay on a rainy day

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Cleanup

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Steller’s Jay with a gray crest and blue feathers

Steller’s Jay with a gray crest

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Steller's Jay with a gray crest and fluffy blue feathers - perched on a fence post. Watercolor painting by Tim F Knight.

Steller's Jay fluffed up on a windy day

Watercolor painting using a filbert brush and Daniel Smith paints.

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Steller’s Jay posing on the fence.

Enter stage left - a squirrel making a cameo appearance.

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Steller's Jay on a fence displaying a crest of gray feathers on a windy day.

Steller's Jay with a wild crest on a windy day

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A cerulean Steller’s jay poses in a Douglas fir. The Jay's Black crest is fully erect and there's a neon blue racing stripe just above its beak. The bird's crest, head, neck and shoulders are ebony. The bird's deep blue feathers are lined with black bars on its wings. Its chest is a light blue shading into the black.

Peanut diplomacy.
The ambassador has arrived.

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Steller's Jay perched on a fence. Ink sketch inspired by birds visiting the yard.

Steller's Jay ink sketch

Bird sketch using a Micron pen is based on personal observations.

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A Steller’s jay perched on a Douglas fir branch. The bird is lit from the left, making its feathers more powdery blue than sky blue. The jay's shoulders, neck, head, crest, and beak are ebony. Two neon blue racing stripes are barely visible between its eyes going up its crest. There is a sprinkling of white feathers beneath this jay's beak. The background of this photo is a Douglas fir bark.

Ambassador Jay reports:
Peanut negotiations successful.

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A bright blue Steller's jay lit by sunlight, stands on the ground, looking directly at the viewer. The top of its shoulders, its neck, head beak, and crest ebony. Its legs look like two black toothpicks. The jay has two fluorescent blue racing stripes above its beak.

Tiny nut, colossal ego.

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Peace is not passive.
It is practiced.

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You call it feeding birds. I call it diplomacy.

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Watercolor painting of a Steller's Jay. Blue, black and green.

Happy Wednesday! Here we have a Steller's Jay. Another noisy one! Yesterday I saw 5 or six at the very top of a tree creating quite a ruckus! Thank you for all your kindness 💕 #bainbridgeislandbirds #pacificnorthwestbirds #birdart #stellersjay

A blue Steller’s jay perched on the gutter waiting its turn for peanuts. This bird is surrounded by green on the gutter and green and white bokeh. The neck and head, eye and beak of this bird are ebony. This is the only crested jay west of the Rockies. This bird has two blue racing stripes going up the front of its crest. Beneath its beak is a spray of little white feathers and the jay has a white eyelashes. Its legs and feet are also black.

Supervisor of peanut distribution.

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Visitor | 12” x 16” | acrylic on panel

A Luna Moth visits A Steller's Jay perched deep inside the branches of a Hemlock tree. A younger bird watches quietly from a distance.

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A sassy sky blue Steller’s jay stands hip shot on the ground in facing the camera. The jay is in the shade and is backlit by sun. Its throat is dark blue to black, and its head and crest are ebony. This jay has white feathers beneath its beak on its throat, and white eye eyelashes. It has two cyan blue racing stripes above its beak, reaching up into its crest.

Attention is a form of belonging.

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Not chaos. Not spectacle.

Only shared presence and peanut diplomacy.

Sound up.

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Steller’s Jay with banded blue feathers looking backwards

Steller’s Jay looking backwards

Amazing how far birds can turn their heads

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Steller’s Jay (coastal) displays two lines of blue feathers on the forehead at the base of the gray crest. Other varieties show white stripes.

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Jay is for just one more peanut.🥜

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Steller’s Jay with fluffy blue feathers and gray crest, perched on a fence in the rain.

Steller’s Jay with fluffy feathers perched on a fence

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I saw this beauty in #YohoNationalPark. The eye catching #StellersJay

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Intelligence learns the shape of air.

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