@ Hix- Thank you! Although, I'll admit, I sort of cheated! I'll explain.
@ KCZooFan- No, it was just there... It was a bit strange; Like I said, I'll explain the encounter soon.
@ IanRRobinson- Thank you! Erm, do you mean like what were the events leading up to the taking of the picture, or like what was I trying to show/say with the picture?
@ Hix- Thank you! Although, I'll admit, I sort of cheated! I'll explain.
@ KCZooFan- No, it was just there... It was a bit strange; Like I said, I'll explain the encounter soon.
@ IanRRobinson- Thank you! Erm, do you mean like what were the events leading up to the taking of the picture, or like what was I trying to show/say with the picture?
So my dad comes home and says "I saw a blue jay on the ground outside. I pulled in, it didn't move. I opened the car door, it didn't move. I walked by, it didn't even look my way." I thought that that was pretty strange, so I went out with my camera and saw it sitting under a bush. I hesitantly got closer and closer, snapping a picture after every small step I took, expecting it to take off before I could blink. But it never did. It may have jerked its head towards me, but it never flew away. I noticed it was closing its eyes quite a bit, sometimes closing only one and keeping the other half-open. This led me to believe that it was either very sick or severely injured, although it didn't appear to have any noticeable injuries. I'd been standing there for about 10, 15 minutes before my dog came around. He's terribly nosey, being a dog and all , so he went up and sniffed the blue jay. He literally stuck his nose RIGHT ON ITS BEAK. The bird didn't flinch. I have video to prove it, too! Eventually, though, my dog circled around the bush it was under, which probably startled him, and so the bird hopped away; key word being hopped. It hopped through the fence (which you see in the background of this picture) next door, so I left. About three hours later, I went nextdoor (which is a schoolyard), I believe to get a ball I was playing with, and found it, still on the ground. I called my father over, and we watched as it hopped from the fence and into a tree, where it was out of our sight. It was getting dark, so we headed inside. And we never saw the bird again.
Yeah, there was no way for me to explain it "quickly".
I think the bird passed, too. It just seemed... its reactions were really slow-like for the most part. It had to hop into a tree instead of flying into it... A bird like that doesn't stand a chance on the ground. Maybe the skunks or raccoons got to it. Or maybe it just passed on its own. I guess we'll never know. <-- (That's more like a sympathetic face )
