Hey Tweeters.

Coming home to pick up something I'd forgotten, I just pulled up the alley and into my backyard when I noticed a flash of blue dropping to the ground, then moving up to a nearby fencetop. A beautifull adult Scrub Jay! It spent quite a while whacking on something and eating it. (maybe a walnut as there is one growing up the next block). Then it moved to a nearby mountain ash tree and ate some berries. This is the first one I've seen since time spent in california, about 24 years ago, so especially cool to see in my own backyard.
I live in north everett (around 13 th and colby), a nice area but somewhat lacking in landbird habitat. Nonetheless we do get some interesting migrants regularly - possibly because the everett 'peninsula' between the sound and the snohomish estuary, is somewhat of a funnel for landbirds. Last week (and same time the year before) we had several Western Tanagers passing through eating our large supply of English Laurel 'cherries', along with the more usual robins, starlings, flickers, and stellers jays.


Happy Trails! Jeff Gibson
everett wa
mail to: gibsondesign at msn.com