Hello out there. I am not the queen of birding by any means, but I was so
startled by two visitors to my peanut platter Tuesday (9/6) that I decided
to figure out what they were and to rejoin Tweeters.

I glanced out the kitchen window, and amid the Steller's Jays were at least
two debonair blue and gray creatures with the white wispy stripe on the
eyebrow. (My old friend Paul Cozens will laugh out loud, I'm sure, at that
very scientific description.)

They really were magnificent, and I had never seen them before. For what
it's worth, I'm on the hillside above Alki, near Schmitz Park, and they were
here around 10 a.m.

Are the Western Scrub Jays common here? Sibley doesn't really show them as
being around here much, but I think it was the Seattle Audubon site that
mentioned an increase lately.

I'll keep my eyes peeled for other interesting oddities-
Megan Sheppard