A flock of Jays goes roaring thru the woods with all the noise and blatant vocabulary of a political caucus. Ruffians and Buccaneers!
Then a band of quiet TITMICE in the oaks overhead, their coming unannounced by raucous shouts, busily destroying enemies of that green canopy. "Work not Talk" is their philosophy of life and they follow it. Under and over the limbs, hovering beneath a leaf to catch a hiding insect villain, even shooting thru the air after a runaway, the busy troup keeps track of one another in modulated tones which bespeak aristocratic lineage. Sociable but not noisy.
NEST: in cavities lined with cottonwood seed down, ferns, grasses and feathers.
EGGS, 5 to 7, plain white.
Breeds mainly in Upper Sonoran zone in mountains of southern Arizona and New Mexico, south to Mexico.
A low tree 15 to 30 feet with short stout trunk and spreading branches forming a round symmetrical head. Distributed thru western Texas, southern New Mexico and Arizona up to about 5000 feet.