Single Greeting Card - Bluejay
4.25 x 5.5" (A2 size)
Kraft brown bag envelope with coordinating liner
Blank inside
Supporting sustainability: 100% recycled post-consumer waste card and envelope; 30% post-consumer waste envelope liner; commercially compostable plastic sleeve.
Gathering seeds and twigs between seasons are the chickadee, bluejay, junco, cardinal and crow — with my curious discoveries about each on the back of the card.
Text on the back of this card:
Oddly enough, I’ve learned through this project that the pigment in bluejays’ feathers is brown, not blue. Their feathers have pockets of air and protein that refract the blue light like a prism would.
Apparently this is true of all blue birds. If I had a blue feather (which, happily for the bluejays, I do not), I could prove the color conundrum to myself by backlighting the feather and eliminating the prism.
I often find whole-shell peanuts in my garden. I'd been blaming the squirrels, but now I think it’s the jays — peanuts are one of their favorite snacks to cache along with acorns, sunflower seeds, and pine nuts.