[Tweeters] California scrub jay - Wikipedia

[Mark Rodgers via Tweeters]

Hi all,

I saw a Scrub Jay while driving through the View Ridge neighborhood last
week—probably the first time I’ve seen one in northeast Seattle.

Best,
Mark

-- 
Mark Rodgers (he/him)
Assistant Teaching Professor, Music History
School of Music
University of Washington

The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this
land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands
within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.

On October 27, 2025 at 11:36:37 AM, Stephen Elston via Tweeters (
tweeters at u.washington.edu) wrote:


> 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

>>>

>>>

>>>

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

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>> ​Steve Hampton​

>> Port Townsend, WA  (qatáy)

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