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blue jay

part of the corvid family, blue jays are actually quite intelligent birds. they have a bit of a bad reputation for raiding the nests of other birds and feeding on the young but this apparently might not fully be true. nevertheless, they are omnivorous and do feed on smaller birds. on the flip side, they are able to make a wide variety of calls and can even imitate hawks. whether for selfish reasons or not, when blue jays detect a predatory, they make calls to indicate this and other birds within an earshot get the warning as well. people refer to their calls as jays, hence the name. they are the provincial bird of prince edward island and the mascot for a certain local baseball team. cyanocitta cristata in moleskine.

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blue crab

these omnivorous little guys are favoured by seafood lovers for their sweet, sweet flesh. their latin names actually mean "savoury beautiful swimmer." the blue / sapphire colour of their pincers lends to their english names although females have streaks of red to them as well. like some of the seafood humans eat, crabs are bottom feeders. we don't eat many land bottom feeders though, do we? these crabs will eat just about anything including other, smaller blue crabs. cannibals! while highly senstive to their environments, these crabs are great swimmers as they're equipped with paddles on their hind legs (of which there are ten). they can be found in coastal canada all the way down to south america. callinectes sapidus in moleskine.

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