Ben and Joy

When the Blue Jay's come to visit the feeder, they stuff their gular pouch with sunflower seeds. This pouch is in their upper esophagu...

This Blue Jay was sitting in a tangle of grape vines at Turkey Run State Park this weekend. It was nice to catch him sitting still with a n...

Blue Jays are a little bit of a sunflower hog, but they are so pretty that I don't mind. Sometimes they come to the feeder in a band of...

After feeling a little burnt out on geothermal features at Old Faithful, we were glad that we still stopped at the Midway Geyser Basin. This...

Sunday we left Ashton, ID and headed to Yellowstone NP via the West Yellowstone entrance. I think this Campanula is C. rotundifolia. It wa...

We had been watching this Raven pair for quite a while this spring. They had all ready had a clutch fail. This one seems to be doing prett...

These guys are quite attractive jays. I had seen them off and on, but never had a chance to take their picture. So I decided to cheat and ...

This Scrub Jay was temporarily cooperating with me while I was taking a hike at Cave Lake State Park. He didn't stay still for long. I ...

This dapper member of the jay and crow family was posing near Dream Lake, which is up from Bear Lake, in the Rocky Mountain National Park.

Yet another Colorado corvid.

Magpies are very common in the mountains, but they were new and interesting to me.

Another new bird for me at RMNP. He was very curious and flew right up to me.