{"id":113924,"date":"2023-06-22T01:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=113924"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T17:39:11","slug":"young-blue-jay-upside-down-at-a-feeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/06\/22\/young-blue-jay-upside-down-at-a-feeder\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Blue Jay Upside Down At A Feeder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given how odd spring has been for me personally, it seemed appropriate for me to photograph a young Blue Jay hanging upside down on the first day of summer.<\/p>\n

\"YoungYoung Blue Jay upside down portrait \u2013 Canon R7, f11, 1\/640, ISO 12800, Canon RF 800 mm, natural light, at a feeder
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

The young Blue Jay came into my friend Steve’s suet feeder and for some reason hung upside down for a split second before it dropped to the ground to feed. I just liked the unique perspective I caught with the camera gear Steve<\/span><\/a> has loaned me while I am here visiting him.<\/p>\n

The few times I have been able to photograph Blue Jays in Utah I haven’t gotten the images that I have wanted. I have accomplished that goal here in Arkansas though. I also hadn’t fully realized how much I have missed these beautiful, curious, blue members of the jay family until now.<\/p>\n

Watching these jays, hearing them calling, and photographing them here has been a real treat. While the adult jays entertain me, the younger jays not only entertain me, they keep me amused as they try to beg for food from the adults. Right now most of the adults are simply trying to get away from their loud, begging offspring.<\/p>\n

More of my photos of these intelligent birds will be seen on my site soon. Right now I am struggling a bit to get images processed in Photoshop because it is using up most of my RAM on this old laptop. Plus the battery on on my laptop has died and I have to stay plugged in to work on photos and posts. That is what happens when you haven’t turned on your laptop in more than three years because of not traveling during a pandemic. A big oops.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Blue Jay photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given how odd spring has been for me personally, it seemed appropriate for me to photograph a young Blue Jay hanging upside down on the first day of summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13950,27,13602,13951],"tags":[13604,4142,3194,13603,13981,4067,6792,2714,4046,2315,2214,8018,4193],"class_list":["post-113924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arkansas","category-avian","category-blue-jays","category-sebastian-county","tag-blue-jay","tag-close-up","tag-corvids","tag-cyanocitta-cristata","tag-feeder","tag-immature","tag-jay","tag-jays","tag-portrait","tag-summer-3","tag-upside-down","tag-urban","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/blue-jay-young-upside-down-portrait-mia-mcpherson-1483.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-tDu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54104,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/09\/13\/woodhouses-scrub-jay-portrait-in-the-stansbury-mountains\/","url_meta":{"origin":113924,"position":0},"title":"Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay Portrait in the Stansbury Mountains","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"September 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It isn't often that I am able to get close enough to a Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay that my only option is to take closeup portraits of them yet that is precisely what happened to me two days ago.","rel":"","context":"In "Birds"","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay portrait in junipers, Stansbury Mountains, West Desert, Tooele County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woodhouses-scrub-jay-portrait-junipr-mia-mcpherson-7845.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woodhouses-scrub-jay-portrait-junipr-mia-mcpherson-7845.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woodhouses-scrub-jay-portrait-junipr-mia-mcpherson-7845.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woodhouses-scrub-jay-portrait-junipr-mia-mcpherson-7845.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":113747,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/06\/11\/blue-jay-portrait-in-arkansas\/","url_meta":{"origin":113924,"position":1},"title":"Blue Jay Portrait In Arkansas","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"For some people, a Blue Jay portrait might be a common image to capture, but for me, it's not common at all. 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