Mexican Jay

Gonna find me a bluebird, let him sing me a song

Cause my heart's been broken much too long.

~Marvin Rainwater, Gonna Find Me a Bluebird Lyrics, 1955

Love those Baby Blues

"When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast."  

~John Burroughs

Mexican Jays love the oaks and junipers here in Long Hollow. 

Flashes of their beautiful blue feathers are truly a gift during this oven of a summer that continues to bake the color from the landscape around us.

The grownups are camera shy, 

but this little baby blue was just as curious about me as I was enamored of him.

He let me snap away. 

Photos are cropped but otherwise, straight out of the camera. 

They really are this beautiful shade of blue!

 I'm grateful for my zoom! He wouldn't let me get this close!

Birds have a way of putting things in perspective. They forge ahead and carry on no matter what happens.  No dwelling on the past, no regrets, sheer 100% survival... and beauty. ~ Susan Halpin

And when he sings to you,

Though you're deep in blue,

You will see a ray of light creep through,

And so remember this,

life is no abyss,

Somewhere there's a bluebird of happiness.

Life is sweet, tender and complete,

when you find the blue bird of happiness.

~Blue Bird of Happiness, lyrics by Edward Heyman and Harry Parr Davies, 1934