Greetings All,
I just joined this forum because I saw an intriguing bird in my yard this sunny (yes, we do have sun in WA) Sunday morning. I looked it up in my Washington bird book to no avail. So I came here. The thing is, it doesn't match anything common to this area. This bird most closely resembles the Island Scrub-Jay and the Florida Scrub-Jay. The best description I have for it is as follows:
It was feeding on the ground. It was shaped like a jay and maybe a little smaller than the common Stellar Jay we see, but not by much. It had a white belly, and blue wings, tail, and head. The tail was longish, like a Jay. The two most prominent things I noticed were that it had a grey back, and it had a distinctive white horizontal stripe across it's eye area. It had no crest.
I noticed that the Island Scrub-Jay is restricted to Santa Cruz Island in CA, and the Florida Scrub-Jay is exclusive to Fl. So what could it be? This is October and I am wondering if it is on some kind of migration?
I have read in the last year how the Earth is giving signs that there might be an impending magnetic pole shift, and that in the interim of that shift there would be magnetic poles scattered throughout the globe and it would interfere with bird and other animal's migratory patterns. I wondered if in coming years we might see birds in areas where they didn't use to be seen. Just a thought.
Miriam
