I love Jays. Jays are smart, like all members of the corvid family. I’m most familiar with the California Scrub Jay, that large, raucous blue bird that squawks loudly and harasses smaller birds at back yard feeders. In Madera Canyon, the local Jay was the Mexican Jay. The Mexican Jay was every bit as raucous as the California Scrub Jay. They came in large numbers and marauded through the trees at the Santa Rita Lodge where we stayed and where we photographed hummingbirds. A single jay visited the area near our hummingbird shooting gallery one morning but didn’t seem interested in harassing the hummers.