need an ID please

this was shot in the Okanagan, British Columbia around Peachland(Kelowna) and i am having a tough time identifying it. i had to crop quite a bit but hopefully someone can help me out.

Nutcracker?

i'm looking in my National Geographic Birds of Western North America and there's a Clark's Nutcracker that looks darn close.

That's the one I'm thinking of.

ok, we'll go with that, thank you.

N.V.M. wrote in post #16167972
ok, we'll go with that, thank you.

Well, I'm no birder (though I do have a couple shots of these). Hopefully someone else will chime in.

Definitely a Clark's Nutcracker.
Al

I think you should go back to Okanagan Mike and find this bird and get a good shot It's a beautiful place anyway, specially around the lake But it does look like a CN

I was thinking of posting this bird for an ID check as well, I think it is the same bird. This was taken in Lake Tahoe last Saturday. Can someone confirm please. (BTW, didn't have a very pleasing bird call)

Thanks

PixelPusher, that's also a Clark's Nutcracker. Nice shot. Whenever I see these they're way up in a tree or flying high overhead.

PixelPusher wrote in post #16168524
BTW, didn't have a very pleasing bird call

yup, it was an awful noise they made.

kd_reno wrote in post #16168689
PixelPusher, that's also a Clark's Nutcracker. Nice shot. Whenever I see these they're way up in a tree or flying high overhead.

Thanks for the ID, pretty good size bird. With the small fluffy feathers in the chest area I wasn't sure if this was a juvenile of some kind at first.

N.V.M. wrote in post #16169232
yup, it was an awful noise they made.

That sure helps with the ID too.. Glad I read your thread first instead of reposting the same bird. Thanks.

That beak makes it look like it belongs in the woodpecker family.

Yes; Clark's Nutcrackers there. They're very pretty birds, even if their call makes you wanna bury your head