Bird Watching: Daily Pics - Page 321, 1 by ducbucln

ducbucln wrote:
Yes Susan, what have you collected for the nesting materials?

Lily, cute juvie you have there!

Yesterday, while washing dishes, I was looking out the window at two deer resting in the soft weed patch below our neighbor's garden when I noticed a Scrub Jay fly into a tree near them. Sure enough, it must have been the same bird I photographed in February because it flew onto one deer's back, then returned to disappear in the tree. A short time later, it reappeared and flew onto the other deer's back. Again it went into the tree. I can only assume it was picking ticks off the deer and taking them to a nearby nest.

Unfortunately, the deer were next to the fence and there was no way I could photograph them from my upper deck without including the fence.