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Jays are a little smaller than crows but bigger than jackdaws. Similar to bullfinches they appear at bird feeders when the snow cover no longer lets them get at their collected and hidden acorns and the frost begins to nip. The winter number tends to be above a hundred thousand birds.

 

The bird with the beautiful exterior is cautious and raucous-voiced. A black-and-white striped crown, black “sideburns” or malar stripes, back plumage pinkish-brown, belly pink with some grey. The rounded black wings have a blue-black-white streaked patch next to a white patch. The tail feathers black too seen from above. A somewhat inadequate description of a colourful bird.