We have a new visitor to the water dish - a scrub jay with a mangled leg. He holds his leg high up and close to the body, and hops around on his good leg. I can't get close enough to tell if this is a recent wound, or a condition he has had for some time.
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| Scrub jay with a mangled leg, at the water dish |
Where most of our scrub jay visitors are brash and noisy (see California Scrub Jay), this one never makes a sound. His survival strategy is to stay as quiet as possible. Several times a day, he flies in for a quick bath and a long drink. He is wary and watches us closely, but seems to manage quite well. He flies off as silently as he arrived.
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