Greycap

 The first day we saw the blue jay we call Greycap, he was at the feeder. He gathered several seeds in his mouth and took them over to the deck railing, where he spat them out & proceeded to eat them one by one. The photos to the left are of him eating. 

One thing we noticed about him was that the top of his head was grey, rather than the blue we were accustomed to seeing on blue jays (which is why we call him Greycap). He does have some blue there, just not much. 

Another characteristic of note is that 

Greycap's collar doesn't wrap all the way round in the front. The second picture here seems to indicate that it does wrap all the way round, but that wasn't the case in real life. 

We didn't see him again for quite some time, so we began to wonder if maybe he was a young fellow and just hadn't entirely got all his plumage yet -- perhaps he'd gained it since, and we were thus unable to distinguish him from other blue jays. 

As it turns out, however, he still looks the same; we saw him only the other day, again at

the feeder, though this time he didn't gather seeds in his mouth like he did before. 

Blue jays are related to crows, ravens, and magpies. They are noisy birds, and unlike other jays in the US, they have a crest. They like oak and pine woods, as well as groves, towns, and suburban gardens. Though they are songbirds, most people know them for their harsh, slurring jay call.