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<p><font face="KacstOne">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.</font></p>
<p>Steve Hampton wrote an informative article in the WOS newsletter
in the fall of 2021 tracking the expansion of the California
Scrub-Jay.<br>
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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.<br>
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You can read the full article in the newsletter here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wos.org/documents/wosnews/wosnews192.pdf">https://wos.org/documents/wosnews/wosnews192.pdf</a></p>
<p>Jane Hadley</p>
<p>Seattle, WA</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hadleyj1725@gmail.com">hadleyj1725@gmail.com</a><br>
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