Seeing red
A rust-red flash on an otherwise grey wing and tail, a dusting of cinnamon beneath, a glint of curiosity in deep brown eyes – it can only be a Siberian jay. Nature photographer Florian Smit captured the autumnal activities of this small corvid, about the same size as a mistle thrush, in a remote conifer forest in Arctic Sweden.
Fanning out
Several million Siberian jays flit among the pines, spruces and larches of the taiga
