Subject: in search of the scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens
Date: Dec 8 11:19:33 1998
From: "Wallis Bolz" - wallitra at nwrain.com


Hey tweeters,

Ostensibly an errand, but actually a furtive attempt to find out if scrub
jays still haunted my neighborhood. I walked down 29th and spied an
immature Cooper's Hawk, Accipiter cooperii, in the upper branches of a
large cottonwood. No scrub jays in the hawthorne thicket. I walked home on
28th. At Aloha and 28th, I spied a bird whose form I recognized as not from
around here. Aphelocoma coerulescens sat at the top of the backyard tree of
the house on the corner. For those tweeters who live in the Stevens
neighborhood, the house is the rental bungalow now being refurbished.

Best,
Wallis

P.S. Read The Beak of the Finch in Mexico. An excellent book.