I'm almost certain I've heard the Scrub Jay whisper song in fall or late summer
, long after breeding. But that was 30 years ago in California, so I'm not sur
e. I've heard it from Stellar's Jay in Oregon, but don't recall the season.
I'll try and pay better attention--I've always wondered about its function.

(Of course, since I'm replying to Dennis' message (on tweeters) an
d the conversation was previously occuring on obol, things are getting confused
as I feared.) (Incidently, if I 'reply' to obol, the message goes to the send
er; if I 'reply' on tweeters, the message goes to the listserver) I wonder if
there's any reason to separate these two lists? It's getting so I can't read e
ven 1/2 of the postings, but I'm still on both networks, just deleting a lot of
stuff based on the headers.
bob obrien