{"id":23952,"date":"2024-09-16T13:07:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23952"},"modified":"2024-10-09T10:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:40:54","slug":"california-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-californica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23952","title":{"rendered":"California Scrub Jay (<em>Aphelocoma californica<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23962\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/img_20240916_019169.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23962\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/img_20240916_019169-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"California Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma californica)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/img_20240916_019169-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/img_20240916_019169-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/img_20240916_019169-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/img_20240916_019169-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/img_20240916_019169.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Scrub Jay (<em>Aphelocoma californica<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Because we didn&#8217;t have a vehicle most of the day (Lisa&#8217;s is in the shop and Brian had to go in the truck to Sisters for work), Cathy and I walked to a small park in the neighborhood. The most prominent plants in areas that are left to themselves seem to be gray rabbitbrush (<em>Ericameria nauseosa<\/em>) and sagebrush (<em>Artemisia tridentata<\/em>) along with a few different grasses and some other smaller plants. As for trees, when you get into the hills you find ponderosa pines (<em>Pinus ponderosa<\/em>), lodgepole pines (<em>Pinus contorta<\/em>), grand fir (<em>Abies grandis<\/em>), western larch (<em>Larix occidentalis<\/em>), and mountain hemlock (<em>Tsuga mertensiana<\/em>) and western hemlock (<em>Tsuga heterophylla<\/em>). In the flat lands east of the mountains, though, the only tree you see most often is the western juniper (<em>Juniperus occidentalis<\/em>). In the park, moving around in the junipers, were quite a few California scrub jays (<em>Aphelocoma californica<\/em>). These are a little smaller than the blue jays we have at home (<em>Cyanocitta cristata<\/em>). Although it&#8217;s not as obvious in this photo, they have quite a bit of a very lovely, pale blue on their head, back, and tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we didn&#8217;t have a vehicle most of the day (Lisa&#8217;s is in the shop and Brian had to go in the truck to Sisters for work), Cathy and I walked to a small park in the neighborhood. The most prominent plants in areas that are left to themselves seem to be gray rabbitbrush (Ericameria &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23952\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23963,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952\/revisions\/23963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}