noticing when the hummingbird or deer or
Steller's jay pauses
Sylvester Allred (a retired biology professor from Northern Arizona University), "Jabber the
Steller's Jay" is a children's picture book takes reader through the first year of life of Jabber, a
Steller's jay.
For bird watchers of all levels of expertise, there's a lot to see and hear right from the start - Siporin hears a ruby-crowned kinglet, and a
Steller's jay calls out and then flies through the tree canopy above all of us.
We had a cat that successfully caught a
Steller's jay chick.
In descending order, these were dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis), pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea), western bluebird (Sialia mexicana), white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis), mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli), ruby-crowned kinglet (Regulus calendula),
Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), hairy woodpecker (Picoides villosus), and brown creeper (Certhia americana).
Papageno's costume incorporates the bright blue and black of the mischievous
Steller's Jay, while Papagena's is based on the Eastern Blue Jay, a related species.
I slumped into a deep couch and nibbled alder-smoked salmon and sipped a glass of Sumac Ridge
Steller's Jay, a British Columbia sparkling wine with notes of toast and citrus, fine enough to have come from Epernay, France.
"After the hawk's last scream, a
Steller's jay sounded the alarm with its harsh wah call," recalls Ficken.
In contrast, the
Steller's jay and blue jay appear to have, diverged more than 5 million years ago.
Within minutes, it was visited by a
Steller's jay and a flock of sparrows.
The central Sierra: big trees, Dinkey Lakes It's the calm lap of lake water against a canoe, the crunch of pipe needles underfoot, and the squawk of a
Steller's jay. Grocery stores stock white gas and night crawlers, T-bone steak reigns as king of the restaurant menu, and you're never more than 10-minute hike from some heart-tugging view of granite peaks.
The two jays that frequent Western gardens are the scrub jay and the
Steller's jay (see box on page 196).