From Beautiful Mt. Walker
I can’t think of a lovelier spot on a spring day than this viewpoint atop Mt. Walker, one of the jewels of the Olympic Mountain Range…and the icing on the cake was seeing this Canada Jay, my second sighting of one, and hopefully not my last.
Nice photo of Mt. Walker. Is the Canada Jay in the same bird family as the Scrub Blue Jays we have here in California?
Thank you, Sandy. And after Googling the relationship between Scrub and Canada Jays I found that yes, Canada jays (also known as Gray Jays or Whiskey Jacks) are related to scrub jays, as they both belong to the same family, the Corvidae (crow family), but are not closely related…so maybe distant cousins would be a good guess.
both photos are wonderful. I’ve never seen that bird, very nice.
Thank you, Linda! The first photo was one I took with my phone, but I needed my camera and zoom lens with the bird. I’ve only seen Canada Jays once before and both times they were in Olympic NP, at high elevations, so they’re not something you’d likely see here in the lowlands.