Upton Country Park

Having a day off and with reasonable weather forecast, Rose and I ventured down to Upton Country Park, where we knew there was a chance of photographing Jays. The Jay has been one of the birds we've long wanted to get more images of, but we knew the park had to be quiet to have a good chance. 
We saw quite a number and set out to get them, but it wasn't easy. The forecast sunny periods were very few and far between and the appearance of a Jay naturally didn't coincide with them. This turned out to be my best effort and from quite a distance. But it was a good test for the new Canon 100 - 400 Mk ii zoom straight out of the box.