[EBB Sightings] Unusual Western Scrub-Jay

[EBB Sightings] Unusual Western Scrub-Jay

bacpab
Wed Aug 15 19:14:50 PDT 2007
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    Hi EBBers-
    
    There's an unusual W. Scrub-Jay that's been at my feeders the last 2 days.  It has the grayer head and chest of a juvenile bird, with the slight fluff that I'm seeing in the other young Jays in the yard. A white eye line is faint but evident.  It has white outer tail coverts with a splash of white banding across the under tail, and white greater coverts on the wings.  This bird has too much white to be a normal W.Scrub Jay, but it is not a Blue Jay.  Partially leukistic?  I'll try to get a picture, but it's shy.  I live in the Oakland Hills behind the Mountain View Cemetery.
    
    Pat Bacchetti
    


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