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Jun 16, 2015 08:03 |  #1

Just got back from visiting friends in Green Mountain Falls, CO. We were sitting on the porch and I had my 70D+70-200 2.8 sitting there. I saw this guy and quick grabbed my camera. This was the best I could get while he flew away.

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Jun 16, 2015 09:35 |  #2

It's most likely a Mountain Bluebird Blake.


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Jun 16, 2015 09:38 |  #3

That's what I said, but that seems to simple! Especially since I made it up! lol


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Jun 16, 2015 09:56 |  #4

Wow I just moved to Green Moutain Falls this spring. It looks to be a stellars jay




  
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Jun 16, 2015 09:58 |  #5

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Wow I just moved to Green Moutain Falls this spring. It looks to be a stellars jay

Really?! We were there last week. We were walking around with an Akita and a husky/malamute. Walked to the Blue Moose with them a couple times. Whereabouts are you in Green Mountain Falls?


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Jun 16, 2015 10:01 as a reply to  @ BlakeC's post |  #6

We live on grandview. I might have seen you. The blue moose is great. We've had a vacation cabin here for years and decided to relocate last year.




  
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Jun 16, 2015 10:10 |  #7

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We live on grandview. I might have seen you. The blue moose is great. We've had a vacation cabin here for years and decided to relocate last year.


You are on the other side. We stayed at our friends' place on Aspen St. We went on a hike up Boulder St too.
Here are some of the pics we took. Would be crazy if we met and didn't realize it!
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Jun 16, 2015 11:53 |  #8

You have a Western Bluebird here Blake. Dark blue and a bit of rufous on it's back.


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Jun 20, 2015 20:51 |  #9

Tail is way off for bluebirds, i'd vote for Western Scrub Jay.




  
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Jun 20, 2015 21:04 |  #10

https://en.m.wikipedia​.org/wiki/Steller%27s_​jay (external link)




  
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Jun 20, 2015 21:13 |  #11

CalBar80 wrote in post #17604846 (external link)
Tail is way off for bluebirds, i'd vote for Western Scrub Jay.

I agree on Western scrub jay. Look at the secondaries and primaries. They don't match up with the Western bluebird which has blue extending to near the tip of the feathers. Scrub jays have blue on the leading edge of the flight feathers on the wings, and not on both sides of the rachis.


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Jun 20, 2015 22:58 |  #12

I agree with CalBar80 and Beekeeper. I didn't even think about the Western Scrub Jay.


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