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