> MP>There is a young lady on YT that, IIRC, lives in the Maritimes who often
>   >posts videos about Bluejays.  Apparently, where she is, they molt.  I have
>   >never seen a featherless jay down here but they are pretty weird looking. ;

> I don't think I've ever seen one doing that, but they do. But they
> lose the feathers slowly and they are replaced so the bird is better
> protected and the only obvious clue they are molting is they can
> lose most of the feathers on their heads leaving them rather bald..

That is what I meant, featherless-headed jays.    When I was much
younger, we did have a male cardinal that would show up bald.  Thing is, it
was bald year-around so that it might be molting never occurred to us.  My
mom used to call it "Baldy" and would feed it. She'd joke that its mate
probably did that to him.  

> We never had bald eagles here that I ever knew about until we
> got a couple local the last few years I see flying around now
> and then. They are more common in British Columbia. A friend of
> mine wand hiking there and took a picture showing probably 30
> or so of them around a small lake in the trees. I'd have thought
> they'd be more territorial than that but I suppose there was
> lots of food available..

I bet they are more common there.  They love the mountains and lakes.  Like
you, I also suspect they are less territorial when there are plenty of
resources available.

> I don't think I've seen any Falcons here and known what they were.
> There are 4 types that live in Ontario, Canada though so maybe I've
> just missed them.. Looking online Peregrine Falcons are year round
> residents not too far South of here, but not this far up..
> That's the type that you know right away what it is..

Yeah, we had at least one that nested on the top of the last office
building I worked in.  They moved the nesting box to the top of our
building before they tore down the (much taller) tallest building in town.
I don't think she was as happy on top of ours, though... the buzzards were
frequent flyers over our building as it was not taller than the nearby
cliffsides, and the other building was right next to the river and (mostly)
away from the cliffs.

> Merlin Falcons only Migrate through this area but Gyrfalcons should
> actually be here in Winter, and furter North year round. I guess
> they like the cold, and it would explain why they are mostly white..
> And Kestrels could be here year round too.

I don't know for sure what other kind of falcons we might have.  I do know
we have some red-tail hawks.

Mike


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