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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