Hi Kevin,
For info, I would guess that you probably saw one of the birds from a small resident group of Western Scrub Jays that has been in the area, and reproducing, between E. Union and E. Cherry and between 10th Ave. and 15th Ave., just East of the main Seattle U. campus, for at least five years now (perhaps most often seen in the alley behind 13th Ave. E.).
Brien Meilleur

> From: kevinpurcell at pobox.com
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:09:42 -0800
> CC: kevinpurcell at pobox.com
> Subject: [Tweeters] Western Scrub Jay on Capitol Hill, Seattle
>
> I was out this morning watching a Cooper's Hawk in my Deodar Cedars
> and hunting over Broadway when a saw a Western Scrub Jay with an acorn
> in his bill. He flew up onto the top of a low spruce on 200 block 10th
> Ave E and eventually turned before flying off to the south east giving
> a nice view of his back. Initially I wondered if it was Blue Jay or
> other stray but he had the brown back.
>
> A bit late for Western Scrub Jays at the northern end of their range I
> would have thought. Has the year-around range now extended to Seattle?
> --
> Kevin Purcell
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