Blue Jay
by Kristin Elmquist
Title
Blue Jay
Artist
Kristin Elmquist
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
Blue Jays are known for their intelligence and complex social systems with tight family bonds. Their fondness for acorns is credited with helping spread oak trees after the last glacial period. Yeah, but this guy stuffed 35 pieces of corn into his gullet before he left my yard. lol
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November 12th, 2011
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Comments (17)
Kristin Elmquist
Thank you, Anne. I find them particularly hard to photograph. It's very rare that they will sit still long enough for me to focus. :)
Anne Norskog
I love your pretty jay! They are such beautiful birds to see flying in to have a nibble at our feeder.
Kristin Elmquist
Thanks, Judy. I'll have to try that. I am always so intent on getting the focus right. I do use the moving objects setting on my camera but hadn't thought about using the series setting.
Judy Filarecki
I see you are a bird lover, also. Nice shot. I started using the setting for fast moving objects on my camera with auto focus and then just holding the button down to get a series of shots. It works pretty well.
Kristin Elmquist
They are a difficult subject, Anthony. They don't tend to stay too long in one location and move very quickly. Thanks for your compliment. :)
Kristin Elmquist
Thanks, Ann and Mary. Ann, I'm sure he would have put up with any type of weather to get to that corn. Everything else was encased in ice. Mary, I couldn't believe how many pieces of corn he was able to fit into his gullet. After he took the first 7 or 8, I started counting how many pieces. lol