Identification - It is almost the size of a crow. At rest or in flight it shown a contrasting black, white, and gray pattern on the body. Up close look for the long pointed black bill, all gray body, and black wings with white patches on the trailing edge of the wings near the body, and white outer tail feathers.
Morsels - Many birds, like titmice, jays, and the Clark's Nutcracker, harvest and store or cache food. These birds place seeds or seed cones under rocks, leaves or even into the soft ground to return for them at a later date. While many of these stored seeds are not recovered a surprising proportion are. Studies have shown that Clark's Nutcrackers can find their caches in two of three attempts by using local landmarks such as stumps, rocks, or trees, and one was observed digging down through eight inches (20 centimeters) of snow to get a cached fir cone.
