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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Our Jay that thinks he's a parrot is a Pacific.  We didn't see any Interiors 
this year but had a couple of them on our top 3 acres last year.  The two 
big Gray/Digger pines came down in the storm and I think that might have 
been where they were making their home because we haven't seen/heard them 
this year.

We have a couple other odd-ball birds.  We had a pair of Black-chinned 
hummers which are rare around here and a single that seems to have decided 
to stay the winter although he should be a transient.  I need to get some 
pictures developed because we had a "lost" Ruby Throated hummer that came 
and stayed a couple of months.  He was extremely agressive and ran the 
Anna's and Caliope's off every chance he got.  I know every few years one 
will be sited down in the Bay Area but this is a first up here.

I think we get a lot of unusual birds (Great Blue Heron, Bald Eagles, Golden 
Eagles, Osprey, Kites and a bunch more) because we are in a micro climate. 
It is always warmer here than in the rest of the valley (most folks use 
about 6 cords of wood a winter and we use between 2 and 3) and don't get the 
really ripping winds that other areas get.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Pileated woodpeckers


> > The jay because multi-linguistic this spring in an attempt, I think, to 
> > keep
> > the various woodpeckers away and, in particular, the pileated pairs and
> > their kids.
>
> How about that! I didn't know Stellar's Jays could mimic other birds.
> Cool. Do you have the interior form or the Pacific form?
>
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