A visit from a blue jay
Posted: February 14, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Critters, Earth, exercise, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Blue Jay, nature, Outdoors, Photography, snow, winter 33 Comments
A blue jay stopped by today. Did you know the pigment in their feathers is melanin? Melanin is brown, but blue jays have modified cells on the surface barbs of their feathers, and light scattered through those cells makes the feathers blue. It has something to do with structural coloration. If a blue feather is crushed, the blue disappears.
Life in the Bogs 