It might be safe to say, and I know I'll be corrected if I'm off, that the
Steller's Jays are less of a discouragement than the habitat conditions that
are really good for Steller's Jays. I'm thinking of conifer-dominated
habitats. In my experience, Scrub Jays are more often associated with urban,
residential, and relatively open deciduous forest conditions. I see or hear
a Scrub Jay in my neighborhood occasionally but the matrix where I live is
some pretty dense forest, mixed conifer-deciduous trees. I don't think it's
ideal Scrub Jay habitat. Cinebar would seem to be similar to my neighbor,
probably even more dominated by dense conifer forest.

Kelly McAllister
Olympia

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Darlene
Sybert
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:30 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Western Scrub-Jays

Personally, I have appreciated the Scrub-Jay reports on Tweeters and have
been keeping a sort of chart of where and when they were spotted.

My interest was sparked by seeing one in Centralia this Fall--the first
one I had ever seen in Lewis County. So far, I have not seen any or
heard of any spotted here in Cinebar (which is about halfway between
Morton and I-5), but I continue to watch for them. There are many
resident Stellar Jays in the area--a half dozen on my five acres. Would
this discourage the Scrub-Jays from stopping by?

Anyway, I hope all of you will continue to report their appearance as
well as all the other common birds. Remember what is common in your
backyard may not occur in mine...

Darlene
Cinebar
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