{"id":11927,"date":"2019-04-01T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=11927"},"modified":"2019-04-01T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:17:45","slug":"california-scrub-jay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=11927","title":{"rendered":"California Scrub Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I actually like Scrub Jays. Gregarious and friendly. Noisy. Bold. We don\u2019t have them in Maine, so I enjoy my encounters with them in Florida, where they are rare enough to go looking for, and in the Southwest where they are very common in the sage brush and Ponderosa. Sometime when I was not looking, the powers that be renamed my familiar Western Scrub Jay (I lived in New Mexico among the jays for 12 years) to the Woodhouse\u2019s Scrub Jay. I am not sure I would have liked it as well under that name \ud83d\ude42 This is the California Scrub Jay, the other survivor of that ornithological committee split. I only see these when visiting San Diego on my once a year pilgrimage to the San Diego Birding Festival, and it is always a treat. This one was way out on the tip of Point Loma, at Cabrillo National Monument. Sony RX10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. 1\/1000th @ f5.6 @ ISO 100. Processed in Polarr. <\/p>\n

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