Sound on!
This #Jay clip is one of our very best #trailcamera clips in my opinion..
It even imitates an #owl?this time.
Enjoy? pic.twitter.com/cVM44ACRN1

— Colin Roberts (@PinetenColin) July 5, 2019

Last week Colin Roberts tweeted this video from one of his forest trailcams in southwest Scotland. His cameras record the activities of pine martens but the view is sometimes dominated by another species, the Eurasian jay.

Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) are intelligent, curious, and very vocal mimics. This particular jay punctuates his visits with the sounds of a squeaky tree, a tawny owl, and an amazing Star Wars riff.

Then he gets really close to the lens and … oh my!

(tweet and video by Colin Roberts @PinetenColin, photo from Wikimedia Commons)