Date: 10/27/25 5:48 am From: Steve Hampton via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] California scrub jay - Wikipedia
Here is my article in the WOS newsletter about their expansion into the
PNW.
They have become a regular species in Port Townsend, with multiple breeding
pairs. I encounter them daily now, when just 4 years ago they were flagged
on eBird.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM Dan Reiff via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> Hello Tweeters,
> This is a species we see only twice a year, in the last five years, one
> bird, once in the spring and once in the fall, for one day and occasionally
> two.
> We usually will hear them before we see them at our feeders.
> The four resident Stellar Jays seem to give them the clear message that:
> nope, this is our territory and food source! Time to move along!
> I found the behavior section of this article to be very interesting.
> Very smart, neat birds.
> This Wikipedia article has some useful references. You can click on them
> if you want to see the some of the original research articles.
> Dan
>
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_scrub_jay >
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