When T-Lazy-7 Ranch snowmobile driver Charles Chisholm arrives at a favorite scenic spot near the Maroon Bells mountain formation — one of Colorado's most-photographed scenes, outside Aspen — he enjoys feeding wild birds, not from a bird feeder but by hand.
This is a gray jay, a songbird native to the American Rockies and colder reaches of Canada. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.