AAAAAAAAARRRGH.

Scrub jays! Oh, tune your ears to 2642 E. Ward Street and you will hear a
grown woman weep. I went to Mexico and the scrub jays came to me. Oh, I am
crying. Who saw these jays?

Wallis
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> From: Eugene Hunn <hunnhome at accessone.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: scrub-jays in Seattle; SAS field trip
> Date: Thursday, November 26, 1998 5:03 PM
>
> Tweets [from Gene Hunn, hunnhome at accessone.com],
>
> Just got back from a short jaunt to the Washington Park Arboretum here in
> Seattle in search of the scrub-jays. Found at least two loosely
associated
> with some Steller's Jays at the very southern end right at the junction
of
> Lake Washington Blvd. E and E. Madison, above the se corner of the big
> soccer field there. They were high in some cottonwoods but then dropped
into
> some hazel thickets at eye level. Also spotted Lady Peregrine on her
perch
> on the N power tower on the I-5 Ship Canal bridge.
>
> Following is the bird list from the SAS field trip of last Sunday. We
> started at the Montlake Fill, cruised through the Arboretum, then south
> along Lake Washington to Stan Sayre's park, then to the Fort Dent Golf
> Course for Thayer's Gulls, then on to the Kent Pond, ending up at Alki
Pt.,
> then Salty's inside Duwamish Head. Windy, showers, cold, but not half
bad.
> 71 species total.
>
> Red-throated Loon 1
> Pied-billed Grebe 5
> Horned Grebe 15
> Red-necked Grebe 5
> Western Grebe 200
> [no Clark's Grebes off Salty's]
> Double-crested Cormorant 30
> Great Blue Heron 3
> GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE 1 ad, 2 imm.
> [at the Montlake Fill, on the play fields to the west]
> Cackling Canada Goose 3 [at the Montlake Fill
> + ca. 200 nw of the Kent Ponds]
> Taverner's Canada Goose 2 [at the Montlake Fill]
> Great Basin Canada Goose 250+
> Green-winged Teal 25
> Mallard 100
> Northern Pintail 200 [Kent Ponds]
> Northern Shoveler 20
> Gadwall 40
> Eurasian Wigeon 1 male [Kent Ponds]
> American Wigeon 500
> Canvasback 3
> Ring-necked Duck 15
> Lesser Scaup 15
> Surf Scoter 50
> White-winged Scoter 2
> Common Goldeneye 10
> Barrow's Goldeneye 10
> Bufflehead 20
> Hooded Merganser 20 [Kent Ponds]
> Common Merganser 15
> Red-breasted Merganser 3
> Ruddy Duck 15
> Bald Eagle 4 ad.
> Cooper's Hawk 1 ad, 1 imm. [Montlake Fill]
> + 1 imm [Kent Ponds]
> Red-tailed Hawk 3
> American Kestrel 1 [nw of Kent Ponds]
> American Crow 200
> Dunlin 1 [Kent Ponds]
> SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER 5 [Kent Ponds, calling]
> dowitcher, possibly Long-billed 2 [Kent Ponds]
> Common Snipe 3 [Montlake Fill; Kent Ponds]
> Bonaparte's Gull 1
> Mew Gull 20
> Ring-billed Gull 50
> California Gull 100
> Herring Gull 5
> Thayer's Gull 3
> Glaucous-winged Gull 25
> Rhinoceros Auklet 8
> Rock Dove 50
> Belted Kingfisher 5
> Northern Flicker 2
> Steller's Jay 1
> crow 25
> Black-capped Chickadee 15
> Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2
> Bushtit 15
> Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
> Winter Wren 3
> Marsh Wren 2
> Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
> American Robin 15
> Varied Thrush 4
> European Starling 500
> Townsend's Warbler 1
> Spotted Towhee 1
> Fox Sparrow 1
> Song Sparrow 10
> Lincoln's Sparrow 2
> Golden-crowned Sparrow 3
> White-crowned Sparrow (gambeli) 2
> Red-winged Blackbird 4
> House Finch 25
> Pine Siskin 25
> House Sparrow 10
>