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Blue Jay Print on Autumn Oak, the bold backyard favourite in a clean Audubon-inspired natural-history style. Archival paper, framed or unframed. Prints from $39, framed from $99.
Each print is made to order. You can cancel within 12 hours of ordering, after which it goes into production and cannot be cancelled. Secure checkout via Stripe.
Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm.
The crest is raised. One foot grips the oak branch, the amber leaves falling in the background, the deep navy plumage catching whatever light autumn gives. This is the seasonal plate, the Blue Jay at his most consequential moment of the year.
In October, Cyanocitta cristata is working. A single jay caches between three and five thousand acorns each autumn, carrying two or three at once in an expandable throat pouch and a fourth in the bill, flying up to five kilometres from the source tree to bury them in soft soil at the edge of clearings. He marks each cache by spatial memory. He returns through winter to dig them up. He forgets enough of them, every year, to plant trees. Ecologists credit the Blue Jay with the post-glacial northward spread of eastern oak forest, a process that moved faster than gravity or wind or squirrels could account for. The leading candidate in the 1989 Johnson and Webb paper in the Journal of Biogeography is the bird now perched above the autumn leaves in this plate.
The blue itself is structural, not pigment. Backlit, the feather goes brown. In forward October light it is cobalt, pure and architectural.
He pairs for life. He incubates eggs alongside the female. He lives, in some cases, to twenty-six years.
Drawn in the close, unhurried manner of the Audubon tradition, with the bird held in the one pose that contains the whole season.
Each print is made to order through our global print partner and shipped from the production lab nearest you - allow a few days for printing plus local tracked delivery.
Each print is made to order. You can change or cancel it within 12 hours of ordering. After that it goes into production and can no longer be cancelled, though we will always put right anything that arrives damaged.
The available sizes (up to 24x30 inches) and any framed finishes are shown above. Choose yours before checkout.
Yes - each print is sized to fit standard frames. Framed finishes are offered on many prints.
Because each print is made to order, contact us within 14 days of delivery and we will put it right.
