Subject: [Tweeters] Clark's Nutcracker, Discovery Park, Seattle
Date: Mon Apr 12 18:05:12 PDT 2021
From: Matt Dufort - matt.dufort at gmail.com

Per Gene Hunn's book on the birds of Seattle and King County, Canada Jay
was seen in the park on April 24 and May 22, 1976. That's the only
record(s) I'm aware of.

Matt

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 17:31 Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net>
wrote:


> Canada Jay has been seen at Discovery Park, but I don't know if there is

> more than one record.

>

> Dennis Paulson

> Seattle

>

> On Apr 12, 2021, at 4:17 PM, Mason Maron <mmaron101 at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> Are there any records of Canada Jay from Discovery? I don't see any on

> eBird. That would be a regular Washington corvid that it's missing, if it

> doesn't.

>

> Mason Maron

>

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 3:45 PM Matt Dufort <matt.dufort at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> Both species have a handful of records from

>> Discovery Park. I'm aware of 5 Northern Mockingbirds and 3 previous

>> Clark's Nutcrackers. Nutcracker was seen in the park as recently as 2019.

>> West Point in particular seems to attract corvids, with Steller's Jays

>> often massing there, Scrub-Jays occasionally joining them, and a

>> Black-billed Magpie in 2013.

>>

>> In thinking about this, I realized that Discovery Park has records of all

>> corvid species that regularly occur in Washington (not accidental Pinyon

>> Jay or Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay). I know that's also true of Neah Bay. Is

>> there anywhere else in the state where all of the regular corvids have been

>> found?

>>

>> Good birding,

>> Matt Dufort

>>

>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:16 THOMAS BENEDICT <benedict.t at comcast.net>

>> wrote:

>>

>>> Any chance it could have been a Northern Mockingbird? I only ask because

>>> Clark's Nutcracker is so out of habitat and NOMO has been reported at

>>> Discovery Park in the past.

>>>

>>> They have similar shape and color.

>>>

>>> Tom Benedict

>>> Seahurst, WA

>>>

>>> On 04/12/2021 10:10 AM John Puschock <g_g_allin at hotmail.com> wrote:

>>>

>>>

>>> A single Clark's Nutcracker was flying around the West Point area of

>>> Discovery Park and 10 AM. Last seen flying around the eastern part of the

>>> point. Not sure if it's still here or not.

>>>

>>> John Puschock

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