Thought I would do a Steller's jay feature. They're the blue jay of the west. And they look pretty awesome with that crest and dark sky blue feathers.







Also here's an updated bird-list. Five new birds have been added...well..3 really. I've seen a Caspian tern & a Barrow's goldeneye before April, but forgot to add them to the list. Waiting to see if I've seen a new Flycatcher with this image.
May includes returning to Bear River to see if any new migrants have stopped in, and exploring the southwest. Hope to see some colorful critters at the Bosque, as well as more roadrunners!
235 birds now.

Geese, Swans & Ducks
Snow Goose
Ross' Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 
American Wigeon
Eurasian Wigeon
Gadwall
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Surf Scooter
Canvas Back
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Barrower's Goldeneye (I guess I'm forgetting some birds, also one I've seen a year or so ago before, but saw again this month)
Ruddy Duck
Common Merganser
Red Breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Bufflehad

Fowl
Wild Turkey
Ring-necked Phesant 
California Quail 
Gamble's Quail
Scaled Quail
Chukar

Loons & Grebes
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Red Necked Grebe
Clark's Grebe

Pelicans & Cormorants
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double Crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic cormorant

Herons, Bitterns & Egrets
Great Blue Heron 
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
American Bittern

White-faced Ibis

Sandhill Crane
American Coot

New World Vultures
Turkey Vulture
California Condor

Birds of Prey
Bald eagle
Golden Eagle
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Sharp-shinned hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Harrier
Harris' Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
American Kestrel
Merlin
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Western Screech Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Great Gray Owl

Shorebirds
Killdeer
Semipalmated Plover
Black Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellow Legs
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Long-billed Curlew
Whimbrel
Sanderling
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Western Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed dowitcher
Sora (This bird was actually heard, not seen. But they make a pretty unmistakable noise. I think I've heard one in Washington before too.)

Gulls, Terns & Murres
Bonaparte's Gull
California Gull
Ringbilled Gull
Mew Gull
Western Gull
Franklin's Gull
Heermann's Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Murre
Caspian Tern  (I've actually seen these before, but just got around to ID-ing the bird)


Doves
Rock pigeon
Band-tailed Pigeon 
Eurasian collered dove
White winged dove
Mourning dove

Greater Roadrunner

Common Nighthawk

Hummingbirds
Black-chinned hummingbird
Anna's hummingbird
Rufous hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Woodpeckers
Acorn Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-napped Sapsucker
Ladderbacked Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker

Flycatchers
Olive Sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-pewee
Black phoebe
Say's phoeve
Vermillion Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird

Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike

Warbling Viero 

Corvids
Western Scrub Jay
Steller's Jay
Blue Jay
Clark's Nutcracker
Gray Jay
Northern Raven
Black-billed magpie
Yellow-billed magpie
American Crow

Swallows & Martins
Tree Swallow
Violet Green Swallow
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Bank Swallow

Horned Lark

American Dipper

Tits, Nuthatches, Wrens & Kinglets
Bushtit
Verdin
Black-capped chickadee
Chestnut-backed chickadee
Mountain chickadee
Juniper Titmouse
White Breasted nuthatch
Red-breasted nuthatch
Pygmy nuthatch
Brown creeper
Bewick's wren
Marsh Wren
Rock Wren
House Wren
Ruby crowned kinglet
Golden crowned kinglet

Thrushes
Eastern bluebird
Western bluebird
Townsend's solitaire
Mountain Bluebird
Hermit Thrush 
American robin
Varied Thrush
Gray catbird
Northern Mockingbird
American pipit

Cedar waxwing
Bohemian waxwing
Phainopepla

European starling

Warblers
Orange crowned warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow warbler
Yellow-rumped warbler
MacGillivary's warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Townsend's Warbler

Sparrows and tanagers
Western Tanager
Spotted towhee
California Towhee
Canyon Towhee
Lark sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Savanah Sparrow
Fox sparrow
Song sparrow
American tree sparrow
Lincoln's sparrow
Vesper sparrow
White crowned sparrow
golden crowned sparrow
Dark eyed junco
House sparrow

Grossbeaks and cardinals
Rose breasted grossbeak
Black headed grosbeak
Northern cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Blue grossbeak
Lazuli bunting
Snow Bunting
Western meadowlark

Blackbirds, finches, crossbill
Redwinged blackbird
Yellow headed blackbird
Common grackle
Great-tailed grackle
Brewer's blackbird
Brown headed cowbird
Bullock's oriole
Red crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
House Finch
Gray-crowned Rosy-finch
Evening grosbeak
American goldfinch
Lesser goldfinch
Pine siskin
Common Redpoll