Subject: [Tweeters] Blue Jay at Point-no-Point
Date: Sun Jun 14 20:10:13 PDT 2020
From: Alan Knue - temnurus at gmail.com

Hello All,

Sorry for the quick message earlier today- I even forgot to add a signature
block to the message- sorry!


A few more details- Charles Enlow and I visited Point-No-Point starting
around 8:40am this morning. We ran into a pair of birders who mentioned
seeing a large group of Steller's Jays moving around the area with a
California Scrub-Jay with them. After visiting the headland forest and
birding the more open area beyond to the south, we came back north and saw
quite a few Steller's Jays in the tops of the trees back at the headlands
and in the trees and scrub around the lighthouse. We were doubly surprised
to see a Blue Jay moving with a large group of Steller's Jays from the
headland forest to the lighthouse. This was around 10:30am. It perched in
the top of the row of cedars near the lighthouse buildings for a minute
or so, before flying back to the headland forest where it perched in the
tops of a couple of tall trees before disappearing. A few other birders
were nearby. Charles managed some record shots both in flight and perched
which will be uploaded to eBird. We waited for another 30 or so minutes
before deciding to move on.


After seeing both Cyanocitta jays, we headed to Mt. Walker (which was our
original destination this morning) where we saw at least 11 Canada Jays at
the top of the mountain, including several immatures in nice sooty plumage.
Feeling we were on a roll, we made a swing down near my office on the UW
campus and surprisingly found "my" pair of California Scrub-Jays within a
few minutes of arriving. They aren't always this easy. They were in their
usual spot near the Ocean Sciences Building.


Never dreamed we'd manage a grand slam of jays in Washington State in June!


Good birding!


Alan Knue

Edmonds, WA

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:33 AM Alan Knue <temnurus at gmail.com> wrote:


> Just a quick alert- flew from forest to the light house with 39-40

> Steller's. Then flew back south to the forest.

>

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