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The jay has been a regular visitor when other members of the crow family already largely have emptied the place of food. On the whole there have been more than a dozen crows and ravens at once in the camera, two ‚married couples’ of magpies – so they move the year round togeteher in couples. According to the Eagle Club people’s observations at least five sea eagles move outside the field of view of the cameras.
 

But we were to tell about the jays: their winter numbers may vary between a hundred thousand and a quarter of a million birds. When the wings of the bird, smaller than a crow, are folded it shows our national colours (blue-black-white), body is greysih-pink, tail base white, long black tail although not as long as the magpie’s, and fluffed-up feathers on crown of head when agitated. The cautious but not human-shy bird favours the border areas of forests with rich undervegetation. Mixed feeder, and in autumns collects winter stores, for instance acorns. If you find oak seedlings in the forest in all probability the ‚planter’ has been a jay, after all it is not possible to remember the location of all carefully hidden acorns. The only one to compete with the jay in planting oaks is the squirrel.