Richard Rowlett <pagodroma at aol.com> wrote among other things

>The I-5 survey ended at the Glenn Co. line, north or Orland, California,
>with the last silhouettes of roost bound crows in the fading dusk. The
state
>by state summary follows:
> AMCR CORA STJA SCJA YBMA miles
>WA 89 0 7 1 0 171
>OR 33 7 3 8 0 300
>nCA 312 4 2 6 8 176
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>TOTAL 434 11 10 10 8 647

I see I'm not the only one that specializes in corvids when making a
straight
single day drive through from Washington to northern California. Usually we
also cut over from I-5 at Portland, loop around Mt. Hood, then down the
east side of Oregon on 97 and pick up I-5 again at Weed in northern
California. That gives you a fairly good chance for Pinyon Jays and Clark's
Nutcrackers, and a less than good chance for Gray Jays. If you bend the
rules, you even count Northwestern Crow, but that's a whole nother
discussion.

Jerry Tangren
<tangren at wsu.edu>