[Length 11 in. Wingspan 16 in.]

This Blue Jay was photographed at TOS Sabine Woods Sanctuary, Sabine Pass, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens + Nikkor TC20E II 2.0x Teleconverter (EFL=900mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: May 9, 2008)

[Length 16.5 in. Wingspan 26 in.]

This adult and juvenile Brown Jay was photographed at the bird feeding station, Salineno, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter (EFL=750mm) on a Nikon D7000 camera. (Date: December 8, 2011)

[Length 16.5 in. Wingspan 26 in.]

This young Brown Jay was photographed at Dewind's Feeders, Saleneno, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S f4 lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=630mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: January 14, 2005)

[Length 16.5 in. Wingspan 26 in.]

This adult Brown Jay was photographed at Dewind's Feeders, Saleneno, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S f4 lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=630mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: January 14, 2005)

[Length 16.5 in. Wingspan 26 in.]

This adult Brown Jay was photographed at the bird feeding station, Salineno, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter (EFL=750mm) on a Nikon D7000 camera. (Date: December 8, 2011)

[Length 16.5 in. Wingspan 26 in.]

This juvenile Brown Jay was photographed at the bird feeding station, Salineno, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter (EFL=750mm) on a Nikon D7000 camera. (Date: December 8, 2011)

[Length 11.5 in. Wingspan 18 in.]

Gray Jays occur throughout the mountains and northern climes of the US, southern Canada, and Alaska. They are known as "camp robbers" due to their bold behavior of stealing food from picnic tables in campgrounds. They will often approach quite closely, as this one did at a mountainside rest area where people were feeding peanuts to the numerous Gray Jays and Clark's Nutcrackers. This one was photographed at a pullout along Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. Photo taken with a 180 f2.8 Nikkor EDAF lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: June 1992)

[Length 11.5 in. Wingspan 18 in.]

This "Taiga" Gray Jay was photographed near Wasilla, Alaska, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: June 1989)