Hovering Jay.
A close relative of the Blue Jay.

We have a suet feeder for woodpeckers that blue jays ad grackles keep raiding.
It is a piece of log with holes drilled into it that is filled with homemade suet.

Woodpeckers can hold on and feed without problem. The jays have to hover and stab at the suet as this one is doing.

Cyanocitta cristata

The pigment in Blue Jay feathers is melanin, which is brown. The blue color is caused by scattering light through modified cells on the surface of the feather barbs.
source - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue_Jay/lifehistory

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