Thanks for sharing your article, Steve. Very interesting.

I am regularly seeing California Scrub Jay in the Greenwood neighborhood of
Seattle. The Stelars Jays still outnumber them significantly.

Happy birding everyone! Steve


On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM Steve Hampton via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Here is my article in the WOS newsletter about their expansion into the

> PNW.

>

> They have become a regular species in Port Townsend, with multiple

> breeding pairs. I encounter them daily now, when just 4 years ago they were

> flagged on eBird.

>

>

> chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://wos.org/documents/wosnews/wosnews192.pdf

>

>

>

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM Dan Reiff via Tweeters <

> tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:

>

>> Hello Tweeters,

>> This is a species we see only twice a year, in the last five years, one

>> bird, once in the spring and once in the fall, for one day and occasionally

>> two.

>> We usually will hear them before we see them at our feeders.

>> The four resident Stellar Jays seem to give them the clear message that:

>> nope, this is our territory and food source! Time to move along!

>> I found the behavior section of this article to be very interesting.

>> Very smart, neat birds.

>> This Wikipedia article has some useful references. You can click on them

>> if you want to see the some of the original research articles.

>> Dan

>>

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>>

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_scrub_jay

>>

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