[Tweeters] Scrub-Jay in Everett

[Jane Hadley via Tweeters]

Dennis Paulson reported that he and Netta Smith saw a California 
Scrub-Jay on a wire on a wire along East Marine View Drive just south of 
Belmonte Court on June 8. He asked whether scrub-jays are regular in 
Everett now.

Steve Hampton wrote an informative article in the WOS newsletter in the 
fall of 2021 tracking the expansion of the California Scrub-Jay.

Steve reported that, roughly speaking, the jay spread from the Portland 
area to Olympia between 1975 and 2000, covering about 100 miles in 25 
years, and from Olympia to Vancouver, BC, from 2000 to 2010, covering 
about 150 miles in 10 years. According to his article, the California 
Scrub-Jay may be running out of habitat, but given a warming climate and 
the species' ability to adapt from its preferred acorns to feeders and 
other food sources, it's likely it will become established and common 
throughout the Puget Trough and beyond. In southern Idaho, contact with 
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay will be inevitable, he said.

You can read the full article in the newsletter here: 
https://wos.org/documents/wosnews/wosnews192.pdf

Jane Hadley

Seattle, WA

hadleyj1725 at gmail.com
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