California Scrub-Jay

California Scrub-Jay perched on a small dead tree branch.
California Scrub-Jay, Tecolote Canyon Trail, San Diego, CA, April 23, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 420 mm; ISO-320; f/8; 1/1000 sec.

This page is for the California Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica). This is one of the 17 or 18 new species (I’m still trying to figure one out) for me when I went on a San Diego Audubon bird walk while I was in the area for a conference. My first photographic evidence occurred on April 23, 2022.