Category: jay

Summer birding photos in Kitimat

A selection of some of my bird photographs so far for the summer of 2023 On August 24, there was a three hour power failure in Kitimat. With not much else to do and because it was a sunny and warm afternoon I sat out on my back deck. One of the steller’s jays that […]

Stellar jay fledge

The adventures of the stellar jay fledglings

  Early last Sunday morning I heard the thump of a bird hitting the glass door that leads out to my deck. I looked out and saw the bird stagger around the deck then take wing and land on the table on the deck. Birds do hit the door a few times a year and […]

Thanksgiving Dinner at my feeders

So I had some interesting visitors at my bird feeders for Thanksgiving Dinner today. I think this is a gorgeous male red winged blackbird. The redwinged blackbird and his mate on my deck beam. The BC redwinged blackbird is is somewhat different from the birds I photographed in Ontario, that at first I didn’t recognize […]