Gift of the Grapes
Our backyard isn't particularly bird friendly. I used to have grand ideas about photographing birds in the backyard, but if I was outside, usually the cats were too, so you can guess why I wasn't attracting too many birds no matter what the landscaping was like.
For a while, though, after digging up the grapes I kept some of the thicker stalks to use as perches near the bird feeders, and captured this scrub-jay as it came in to feed at one of the suet stations.