Blue Jay

One of the birds I was hoping to photograph during my trip to Minnesota was a Blue Jay. I remember these striking birds as being quite common as a boy. Here in Oregon, Steller's and Scrub Jays are common, but we have no Blue Jays.
While I would have liked better ones, I did manage to get some pictures of a Blue Jay in the yard of my sister and her husband's homestead. It was perched in the shadows of a large tree along the periphery near a small creek.