H.R. Waller
Date: 6 October, 2008
Time: 1248
Location: Across the sidewalk from the science buildings (on the south side)
Weather: Still mostly cloudy, but dry, 60 degrees.

As I was shuffling along to class an unusual flash of color caught my eye. Accustomed to the repetitious oranges and yellows mixed with the fading green on the trees, this sudden burst of blue was an atypical observation that my eyes picked up on immediately. As I did a double take to further observe this abnormality, I realized that it was a Western Scrub Jay like the one I had seen before in Colloquium class. The brilliant blue avifauna darted around on the railing attatched to the building right across from Olin and Collins where a leafy tree was shading the whole area and providing an escape for the bird as he looked up into the branches and flew up into them. He then looked upwards again and once again flew higher. I wonder what birds are looking for when they do this? It was strange for me to see such a bright bird here in the open like this, because back home the only strange colored birds hide out in forests and are very shy, bu thtis one had no problem being around people and being seen.

Picture courtesy of Google Images.