Birds of a Feather

It sat already in the next tree and observed... as did the resident magpie who seems almost afraid of the odd rare visitor with the shorter tail but more powerful bill.
Nutcrackers tend to visit rarely and briefly in late summer and only in bad weather. In winter they return to dig out their stuff and may stay longer when they find a feeder near a cache. They breed in the high alpine ranges near the edge of the treeline but their winter range goes all the way across the foothills to the plain, and they can remember all their trees on their route.