[obol] "parasitism?"

[Barbara & John Woodhouse]

Good queastion, do you think it could have anything to do with less 
people on the Coast range. Where we were preyed on by GREY JAYS was 
at a picnic area on Mount Rainier. There really aren't many areas 
that gets a bunch of people eating on hte Coast Range. In the days 
when we had them at the Cape Mears SP they used to beg in the picnic 
area there. The last time we saw them in that region was the year 
when the Loop Road slide and closed the road. We were walking down 
form the top and a bunch of them appeared and were down on the road 
all around us. We have not seen them since.

Barbara Woodhouse
Tillamook




At 7:07 AM -0800 1/8/2007, Darrel Faxon wrote:
>Brings up a question.  I have seen Gray Jays act like that in central
>Oregon, coming right into camp and taking food right out of people's hands.
>But I have never seen the ones in the Coast Range even get close to people.
>Has anybody else observered close interactions between the jays and people
>in the Coast Range?  And if not, what accounts for the difference?
>Thoughts??
>
>Darrel
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>From: "Dennis P. Vroman" <dpvroman at budget.net>
>To: "pamela johnston" <pamelaj at spiritone.com>; "obol"
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>>  Gray Jays are pretty brave...even the juveniles.  Once at Crater Lake NP,
>>  while enjoying lunch, a "gray" juvenile Gray Jay landed on my wife's head
>>  in
>>  an attempt to get a grape she was about to eat.  It came in from behind
>>  her
>>  and she didn't see it coming.  Needless to say scared the devil (well,
>>  most
>>  of it) out of her.
>>
>>  Dennis
>>
>>>  Or gulls waiting to see if that Great Blue Heron can really swallow that
>>>  fish, and Gray Jays waiting to steal skiers' sandwiches.
>>>
>>>  Pamela Johnston
>>
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