{"id":16241,"date":"2014-10-23T05:49:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=16241"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:52:17","slug":"woodhouses-scrub-jay-perched-on-an-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/10\/23\/woodhouses-scrub-jay-perched-on-an-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay perched on an oak"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Woodhouse\u2019sWoodhouse’s Scrub-Jay perched on an oak – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/2000, ISO 500, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TX, natural light, not baited
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I love Jays. I love how smart they are. I love their flashy colors when they are on the wing. I love their calls<\/a><\/span>. I love how they seem to travel in families. And I also love how bold they are.<\/p>\n

Except when I try to photograph them. They usually fly away once that big lens is pointed at them.<\/p>\n

Last month I was able to photograph this Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay on my way up to Cascade Springs<\/a><\/span> in Wasatch County, Utah as it perched on an oak near the road. I am not sure if this is a White Oak or a Gambel’s Oak but I do know that acorns from oaks are their primary food source.<\/p>\n

I was tickled to get the images of this Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay that crisp early fall day in the Wasatch Mountains because they have been a nemesis bird for me as far as photographing them. I was just as happy to get images of this bird as I was the juvenile American Dippers<\/a><\/span> I also photographed that morning.<\/p>\n

But then I am always happy to have birds in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n

Western Scrub-Jays became Woodhouse\u2019s Scrub-Jays in July of 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month I was able to photograph this Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay on my way up to Cascade Springs in Wasatch County, Utah as it perched on an oak near the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,2593,26,2703,2710],"tags":[4004,2712,970,4021,4471,3194,4620,5370,2714,5265,4104,6793,5264,4018,5263,2711],"class_list":["post-16241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-cascade-springs","category-utah","category-washington-county","category-woodhouses-scrub-jays","tag-adult","tag-aphelocoma-woodhouseii","tag-autumn","tag-bird-photography","tag-bird-watching","tag-corvids","tag-fall","tag-forest","tag-jays","tag-oak","tag-perched","tag-scrub-jay","tag-scrub-jays","tag-sky","tag-western-scrub-jay","tag-woodhouses-scrub-jay"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t