** Reply to note from Deb B.


> 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.

Although a fair distance from Idaho, two blue Jays have been seen within the
past couple of weeks here in c. BC. Perhaps another mass fall movement is
underway.

- Jack


Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca