Tweeters,

Western Scrub Jays are no reported annually from a few reliable locations in
Yakima Co. Namely, these are the city of Yakima (usually 2-4 reported on
the CBC and may infact be breeding but not yet confirmed I don't think),
Fort Simcoe, HWY 97 between Toppenish and Satus Pass, as well as areas in
Selah (if I remember right) and near Tampico west of Yakima. This fall, it
seems a few more reports of Scrub Jays than normal, with my own personal
observations of three different birds together about .25 miles from my house
east of Yakima and north of Moxee.

Others may have more detailed information (Andy, Denny?)

Jeff Kozma

j c r underscore 5105 at charter dot net

Yakima


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill and Nancy LaFramboise" <billnan321 at gmail.com>
To: "'Tweeters'" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 7:41 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Western Scrub-Jays


> It's time to comment on Western Scrub-Jays (WESJ) in Eastern WA or at
> least
> our neck of the woods. The first Benton county record was reported on
> November 6, 1996 in Kennewick - a jaw dropping event as we believed that
> the
> closest population was in the Lyle area.
>
> There was a record of a single bird in West Richland in 2005.
>
> Since 2006 (and maybe before), there have been WESJ in Prosser. There are
> several small family groups there and they are known to have produced
> young.
>
> We do believe that Yakima county has regular occurrences now but we will
> leave that to them to report on.
>
> For our area it looks more like range expansion rather than invasion due
> to
> poor acorn crop.
>
> Bill and Nancy LaFramboise
> Richland WA
>
> <snip>
> I think Wayne Weber pretty much nailed it with his comments on the
> Western Scrub-Jay invasion this fall. I am attempting to tally these
> "northerly" jays with the thought of trying to put this fall's event
> into some sort of context numbers-wise. So keep the reports of Western
> Scrub-Jays coming as far as I'm concerned. Eastern Washington is also
> having a few "invade" over there. Interesting stuff!
>
> Cheers and good birding,
> Brad Waggoner
> Bainbridge Island
> mailto:wagtail at sounddsl.com
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