Subject: Re: Blue Jays in Eastern Washington
Date: Oct 8 20:05:41 1997
From: Burke Korol - bkorol at netidea.com


Funny you should mention Blue Jays. There was one just outside of Nelson,
BC on Sunday and I heard of another bird in the southern end of the Slocan
Valley exactly one week ago. Another bird was reported at Nakusp along
Upper Arrow Lake in late September. The few BC Blue Jays that I have seen
or heard about in BC's Okanagan (Kelowna, Summerland) seem to show up about
now and tend to spend the winter.

At 09:01 PM 08-10-97 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm hoping the Blue Jays you mention are the same ones I'm about to refer
>to. Here in North Carolina, we have them as residents, and I might add,
>while they are a very pretty bird, they are a nuisance at times. They are
>very verbal when they take a notion and can be aggressive to the smaller
>birds in my yard. They use the feeders with mixed seed and sunflower and
>waste alot kicking seed out hunting for the one seed that suites their
>fancy. We even get our share of bald Blue Jays as well. I'm told it's a
>sign of mites ect...I thought Blue Jays were resident everywhere, guess not.
>At 05:51 PM 10/8/97 -0700, you wrote:
>> I have a second-hand report of Blue Jays on Kamiak Butte, Whitman
>>County, Washington, this weekend (either October 4 or 5). This is a
>>reliable source; I made sure he wasn't just telling me about a
>>"blue-colored" jay. The birds were in the parking lot of the state park.
>>This is not far from Moscow, Idaho, where several Blue Jays have spent the
>>last few winters. I will try to get to Kamiak Butte to check it out
>>sometime this weekend.
>> If there is anyone from Moscow, on Tweeters, could you find out
>>whether the "regular" Blue Jays have returned yet? What are the arrival
>>dates for Blue Jays for eastern Washington/ northern Idaho? I seem to
>>remember several in Moscow in October, 1995, but last year it seemed that
>>they didn't show up until December. Also, are there other places in
>>Tweeters-land where they occur regularly? Does anyone have any summer
>>records for Blue Jays? The Moscow birds seem to disappear ever summer and
>>reappear every winter but we don't know where they go.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>Deb Beutler
>>Department of Zoology
>>P.O. Box 644236
>>Washington State Univerisity
>>Pullman, Whitman Co., WA
>>dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu
>>
>>
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Burke Korol
Pandion Ecological Research Ltd.
ph: (250) 354-0150
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Nelson, B.C.
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