It’s a bird with attitude. Read any article about it and you will find many descriptive adjectives used to attempt to illustrate the nature of this bird: brash, jaunty, mischievous, animated, vocal, playful, saucy, or loud. You can see this bird any time of the year at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve. The California scrub-jays, Aphelocoma californica, can usually be found at our feeders looking for seeds. Or the jays may be seen shadowing visitors on our trails.
Morongo’s Blue Rascal, the California Scrub-Jay
