VLVL2 (15): Blue Jays

[Dave Monroe]

"Blue jays appeared on foraging patrols, shrieking,
bullying, scavenging, seagulls of the redwoods." (VL,
Ch. 15, p. 323)


Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

http://birds.cornell.edu/BOW/BLUJAY/

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4770id.html


Cf. ...

"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd
Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping
fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue
jays stomping around on the roof. In his dream these
had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the
ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each
bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light
pulsing in their wings, he could ever quite get to in
time.  He understood it to be another deep nudge from
forces unseen ...." (VL, Ch. 1, p. 3)

   "Desmond was out on the porch, hanging around his
dish, which was always empty because of the blue jays
who came screaming down out of the redwoods and
carried off the food in it piece by piece. After a
while this dog-food diet had begun to give the birds
an attitude ...." (VL, Ch. 1, p. 4)

"It was Desmond, none other, the spit and image of his
grandmother Chloe, roughened by the miles, face full
of blue-jay feathers, smiling out of his eyes, wagging
his tail, thinking he must be home." (VL, Ch. 15, p.
385)


"Blue Jay Way" --G. Harrison (1967)

http://web.mit.edu/scholvin/www/harrison/hbeatles.htm#BlueJayWay

http://beatles.cselt.it/rmb/files/awp/bjw.html

http://www.electricearl.com/BlueJay.html


	
		
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