Today’s post feature some images I captured while enjoying coffee on my front patio last week.

It was a cool, quiet, early morning on the front patio … that is, until something came falling through the leaves and the limbs of the big oak tree. Then a “thud”, followed by a baby Blue Jay shaking it’s head.

A recently-fledged Blue Jay baby had apparently taken a wrong step … or, still working on getting his small, flight wings to work! Here is a photo captured right after falling from the tree:

Hearing a lot of squawking, a parent Blue Jay was moving about the tree, above the fallen fledgling, monitoring it’s progress and safety:

Blue Jay adult monitoring just-fledged jays

Anxiously trying to get back into the tree, the fledgling tried … unsuccessfully, to climb the tree trunk:

Recently-fledged Blue Jay

Shortly after, the fledgling went out of sight. Always interesting to watch a newly-fledged bird as it navigates it’s new world!

Photographic Equipment Used:

  • Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
  • Canon 100-400mm IS lens
  • Handheld, with IS “On”
  • ISO 500
  • Aperture f/8
  • Shutter 1/90 sec. to 1/250 sec.

James Braswell

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