<html><head></head><body>Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Mark<br> <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div>-- <br>Mark Rodgers (he/him)</div><div>Assistant Teaching Professor, Music History</div><div>School of Music</div><div>University of Washington</div><div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div>
</div> <p class="gmail_quote" style="color:#000">On October 27, 2025 at 11:36:37 AM, Stephen Elston via Tweeters (<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote"><span><div><div></div><div>
<div dir="ltr">Thanks for sharing your article, Steve.
Very interesting.
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<div>I am regularly seeing California Scrub Jay in the Greenwood
neighborhood of Seattle. The Stelars Jays still outnumber them
significantly. </div>
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<div>Happy birding everyone! Steve</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Here is my article in the WOS
newsletter about their expansion into the PNW. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">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. </div>
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<a>chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://wos.org/documents/wosnews/wosnews192.pdf</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Dan Reiff via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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Hello Tweeters,<br>
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.<br>
We usually will hear them before we see them at our feeders.<br>
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!<br>
I found the behavior section of this article to be very
interesting.<br>
Very smart, neat birds.<br>
This Wikipedia article has some useful references. You can click on
them if you want to see the some of the original research
articles.<br>
Dan<br>
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