Noisy as they are, Blue Jays are notoriously hard to capture in a photo. They move fast and spend most of their time in the bushes. This one stopped by for a sunflower seed giving me the chance to grab one shot before he was gone.
A flash of red in the hedge indicates that the finches and sparrows are descending on the bird feeder.
After a cold snowy night the flickers were still thinking spring.