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Finally My office has an outlook on our back garden so I tend to know most birds that visit it. Only twice before did we get a visit from a Jay, and both times I was not ready with my camera, and when I got my camera it left. Today I was lucky that this Jay's curiousity for a brief second took over his natural shyness. Perhaps the fresh seeds I put out have something to do with it :) Eurasian Jay,Garrulus glandarius,Geotagged,Heesch,The Netherlands Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

Finally

My office has an outlook on our back garden so I tend to know most birds that visit it. Only twice before did we get a visit from a Jay, and both times I was not ready with my camera, and when I got my camera it left. Today I was lucky that this Jay's curiousity for a brief second took over his natural shyness. Perhaps the fresh seeds I put out have something to do with it :)

    comments (3)

  1. Funny and a bit curious looking fellow :) Posted 13 years ago
  2. Nice how he looks at the camera (assunming that it is you where he is looking at) Posted 13 years ago
    1. Yes he spotted movement inside the house. Just like the jackdaws he is very shy. Strange how all big birds are on high alert whilst the smaller passerines don't care if I'm around. Posted 13 years ago

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The Eurasian Jay is a species of bird occurring over a vast region from Western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian Subcontinent and further to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-east Asia. Across its vast range, several very distinct racial forms have evolved to look very different from each other, especially when forms at the extremes of its range are compared.

Similar species: Perching Birds
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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By Ferdy Christant

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Uploaded Jun 30, 2012. Captured Jun 30, 2012 13:55 in Schoonstraat 24A, 5384 Heesch, The Netherlands.
  • NIKON D7000
  • f/6.3
  • 1/2000s
  • ISO1000
  • 500mm