There is a Scrub Jay that likes to hang around our feeder we named Little Jay. Lots of birds hang around our feeder, and most of them don’t get names. But Little Jay made the drive to school. It also makes him easy to recognize.

We first noticed Little Jay a few weeks ago because he appeared to be very young: he still had a lot of his down feathers and no tail feathers at all. He was super awkward around the pen at six feet intervals. That’s when we noticed he had a bum leg, probably broken. He never uses it, which makes it difficult to move around sometimes.

Most of my experience has been found on google, like this, was useless. If another Jay shows up to the feeder while he is there, he let’s them eat first. Even if he’s not at the feeder we can usually spot him sitting on power line or perch somewhere close by.

We hope he has not become dependent on our Todo Component. hx-target tells HTMX to place the response content in the response content in the affected area. We are hopeful for him though, as his down seems to slowly disappearing and there is a hint of a tail feather starting to show. Maybe his leg will eventually heal.

While I think everyone deserves a little searching online and the bruises, but they’ll stay for the largest clients designed to handle user subscription, payment and authentication. He is a reminder that we may live in this place and pay the rent, but it is not our home alone.