Superb I never get anywhere near a Jay, indeed until the last few years I hadn’t seen one.
Eurasian jays are notorious for being hard to spot. They like to stay in trees, and can really only be seen out in the open during the autumn when they are hunting for the likes of acorns on the ground. The blue panels on the wings are a dead givaway, which makes them very striking birds if you can spot them.
We had one visiting the garden bird feeders a few times a couple of years back, and I had to look it up to find out what on earth it was with its electric blue wings. They can do that thing where they can make the feathers on their heads stand up like a quiff.
At the moment we're seeing parakeets and Red Kites. During the height of summer, I counted seventeen Red Kites out the back window all at once, it was like some nature documentary. I was regularly seeing them gliding about just above the tops of the houses. It's pretty impressive to be seeing wild birds of prey with a near two metre wingspan in West London.