Even fear of the bird flu isn’t stopping some Floridians from hand-feeding scrub jays, fascinating the author.

I consulted my go-to resource for everything about birds - www. allaboutbirds.com from Cornell Lab: “Blue Jays carry food in ... to the lower mandible of the beak, that can be used for storage.

If you catch a glimpse of a large, iridescent, blue bird flitting around in ... midway down its back with the wings a sparkling or iridescent blue. This jay is named after the German naturalist ...

Moments later, the bird’s parents swooped in with bugs in their beaks. Soon all the blue jays were gone, back to the wild just as Farris intended. Not that it was easy saying goodbye to one of ...