{"id":1589,"date":"2015-02-08T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2015-02-08T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:42:13","slug":"fledgling-scrub-jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/fledgling-scrub-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Fledgling Scrub Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h4>Fledgling Scrub Jay Enjoying Peanuts<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>This fledgling scrub jay was photographed in the summer of 2014. It is now grown, and comes with its family group to eat peanuts when I put them out. The scrub jays also eat sunflower seeds and some other forms of bird food I put out. But, peanuts are a favorite, and are from the fledgling stage!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1590\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20140728_IMG_8311-Edit-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"fledgling scrub jay\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1590\" srcset=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20140728_IMG_8311-Edit-Edit.jpg 600w, http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20140728_IMG_8311-Edit-Edit-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fledgling Scrub Jay, Enjoying Peanuts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/western_scrub-jay\/lifehistory\" title=\"scrub jays\" target=\"_blank\">Scrub jays<\/a> are a very common bird in Albuquerque and the Desert Southwest. These birds are not shy! If I let their feeders run out of their preferred food, they will shriek at me as soon as they see me in the yard. That is not because they are afraid; they do not fly off. I have one peanut feeder on the patio table, and they will come within a foot of me to feed there once spring arrives and I am out more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Fledglings like this one will not appear until summer, but adults are around now. 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But, peanuts are a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/fledgling-scrub-jay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fledgling Scrub Jay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,102,20,103,1],"tags":[320,352,321,353],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albuquerque","category-birds","category-new-mexico","category-scrub-jay","category-uncategorized","tag-albuquerque","tag-birds","tag-new-mexico","tag-scrub-jay"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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