While not as brilliant a shade of blue as their Eastern Blue Jay cousins, the California Scrub Jay makes up for it with their squawking.
They’re fairly big, so they have no fear of the crows, and think nothing of swooping in to steal bird seed from the smaller house finches, mourning doves, and juncos.
They also draw a crowd of mockingbirds, who will attack them on sight since the jays will steal, break, and eat eggs from the mockingbird nests. Mockingbirds don’t put up with that shit.
So, loud, obnoxious, a pest, not even bright and pretty, but more like the biker gang type of larger jay.
I like them!
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