Mexican Blue Jay

This is my very first wildlife blip and I'm very excited about it.  I've not been lucky with my little camera with the quick little creatures, though not for lack of trying.

This is a Mexican Blue Jay. Mexican Jays are a large, crestless jay, with a blue-gray back, blue head, wings, rump, tail, and pale gray underparts. The bill, legs and feet are black. They feed primarily on acorns, but also eat insects, fruit, carrion and eggs and young of other birds.  They glide between perches.

They are found as far north as central Arizona and go south into the mountains of Mexico. Mexican Blue Jays may live up to 20 years, often in the company of its offspring, parents, siblings or other relatives on the territory it was hatched or an adjacent one. This one lives in the Santa Rita Mountains in Southern Arizona.

With the limit on my zoom, I had to get quite close to this one to get this capture.