"AusDigi" wrote in message
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Great shots Pat, Seeing how happy you are to see him I hope you get many
more. Being called a "Scrub" Jay I guess that means they like some scrub
around - is there?

Heh. No actually it's pretty green. There's nothing that looks like scrub
brush within 50 miles but that's not the case historically. Southern
California's natural state is desert. The only reason we're as green as we
are is because of massive plantings of greenery and massive imports of water
from the Colorado River and from Northern California snow melts. A hundred
and fifty years ago there was probably lots of scrub brush.

Anyway I'm looking forward to seeing more jays in the future. I know
they're in the area. I've just been unable to attract them to my property
until yesterday. They're nice to look at and extremely smart birds, being
in the Corvid family - which includes crows. They are known to bully other
birds occasionally but that shouldn't be a huge problem because they don't
generally eat the same stuff as many of the other birds in the area.

Pat