Wild Turkey - Images by sandra calderbank

Birds - Images | scalderphotography

Birds - Images | scalderphotography

Florida Scrub-Jay

I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph this gregarious Florida Scrub Jay at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. These birds are a threatened species that are uncommon and live only in scrublands in Florida with dense growths of low oak, sand pines and palmettos. This Scrub Jay perched on a wooden post with a nut in it's beak. While I watched it proceeded to crack open the nut on the post and then eat the cracked nut.
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