[obol] Re: Gray Jays in the Coast Range
- From: Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "5hats@xxxxxxxx" <5hats@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:19:39 -0600
my sense is that they are much less common and more local further south.
Regular to Lane Co where there is enough older timber, not sure about Douglas,
maybe Matt would know.
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
Living in Louisville Colorado through July 2014
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
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> On Oct 10, 2013, at 7:41 AM, Darrel Faxon <5hats@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "are absolutely everywhere"
> I beg to differ. Back in 1940 when the original Birds of Oregon was
> published, Gabrielson and Jewett commented that the species was more common
> in the northern Coast Range. I have very limited experience in that section
> of the state, but in the few visits I have made there, I found the species
> with regularity. Here at Thornton Creek in the central Coast Range it is a
> different story. I have lived here my whole life, have worked outdoors for
> the most of it, and therefore have had ample opportunity to encounter Gray
> Jays on an almost daily basis had they in fact been present. On average, I
> have encountered them about once each year. Usually it has been on or near
> the higher ridges, but I have spent considerable time there without seeing or
> hearing any. There have been exceptions. One fall a flock of about twenty
> of then invaded the valley bottom and feasted for several weeks on ripe
> cascara berries. But for the most part they are decidedly rare in this
> location. I do think (although the impression is only based on anecdotal
> evidence) that my encounters with the species at this location has declined
> correspondingly to the change from secondgrowth forest to young regenerating
> plantation forest which has occurred in all the surrounding country over the
> past thirty years.
>
> Darrel
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