Subject: Re: Gray Jays
Date: Jan 27 10:47:40 1998
From: "Rob Conway" - robin_conway at hotmail.com


Chris & Tweet's

I have the following Gray Jay sightings in lowland Puget Sound:

2/3/89 Cougar Mtn, Issaquah, King County 122.10 47.56 elev 800'
single bird at my feeder. 18" snow cover, temp 5 degrees F
vegetation - new housing development bordering 80 yr second
growth timber stand.

2/10/96 1600 Lind Avenue SW, Renton, King County 122.22 47.47 elev 70'
single bird in tree at edge of open field. This is in the
flat lowlands at the very north end of the Kent Valley!!

11/97 Cougar Mtn, Bellevue, King County 122.13 47.53 elev 640'
single bird, in tree, riparian section in young second growth
mixed conifer/hardwood forest (<50 years)

I also heard at least 2 grey jays calling in downtown Issaquah near the
salmon hatchery on 2/15/91 - I did not view those birds.

Rob Conway
Bellevue, WA

robin_conway at hotmail.com

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:45:24 -0800

From: CHRIS CHAPPELL <cbmm490 at gwgate.wadnr.gov>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: GRAYS JAYS

I am compiling information on GRAY JAYS in Washington
and am very interested in their distribution and seasonality in
the lowlands. American Birds/Field Notes reports are very
few, probably because the species is just so widespread and
common in the mountains. However, it does occur in
portions of the lowlands at low densities.

So this is a request for past and present sightings of GRAY
JAYS below 2000 feet elevation, particularly on the outer
coast, Willapa Hills, Puget Lowland, and west slope of the
Cascades. Please provide location and date or month/year.
Or even if its just a memory from the past, let me know. If
your record has already been in American Birds or the
just-published Breeding Bird Atlas, don't sweat it.

Thanks

Chris Chappell
Olympia
chris.chappell at wadnr.gov



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