Blue jays are intelligent, beautiful bullies. I took this photo because the light was so great. This isn’t a favorite picture of mine because it reminds me too much of a greeting card. It’s a pretty bird picture showing classic, but not very interesting behavior.
Which is too bad, because Cornell Lab describes a lot of interesting blue jay behavior such as the fact that the higher the crest, the higher the bird’s aggression level. That makes this bird quite content.