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Photo by DON BARTLING
Blue jay holding a peanut shell between his legs while picking apart the shell with its beak for the peanut inside.

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The blue jay: beauty, brains and spirit with a perky little crest!
October 17, 2019 1 a.m.

The blue jay: beauty, brains and spirit with a perky little crest!

I was alerted one morning by a blue flash in my backyard and heard a piercing jay, jay, jay, sound. I wondered to myself if it could be a blue jay! I couldn’t believe it until I looked out the window to see a blue jay perched on a Ponderosa pine branch; it was the first one I have seen in Idaho.