BC Birders,

I picked this message up off USENET's REC.BIRDS

Sounds interesting...


>Re: BLUE JAYS - OUT OF RAN
> From: Serge Le Huitouze <serge at cs.sfu.ca>
> Date: 20 Oct 1994 20:38:06 GMT
>
>Though I am a beginner in north-american ornithology (I am now in Vancouver,
>arriving from Europe two weeks ago!), I am already used to some birds, in
>particular Steller's Jay, and their calls to.
>
>Last sunday, I was walking around and heard something new to me. It was a
>little troup (6 or 10) of birds in the top of a tree. Due to other trees in
>the surrounding, it was very difficult to see them. After ten minutes
>however, I was able to see something looking like a Jay (but sure not a
>Steller's Jay) with some white on the wings.
>So, according to my field guide, I am 95% sure that they were BLUE JAYS.
>
>BTW, I saw them in a residential suburb, Port Moody, near Vancouver which is
>123 degrees W. longitude, 49 degrees N. latitude (British Columbia, Canada).
>
>--Serge