Date: 9/16/25 7:52 pm From: Rachel Lawson via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Scrub-Jay vs lizard
Yesterday, Joseph and I were driving down the street in our Magnolia, Seattle neighborhood, when we saw a California Scrub-Jay in a hedge along the sidewalk. Because we rarely see scrub-jays in Magnolia,we stopped to watch it. The jay flew down and started to peck at something on the sidewalk, which turned out to be a small lizard! The four-inch-long lizard managed to fend off the jay for a full minute before the jay finally grabbed it and carried it back into the hedge.
We were quite surprised to see this jay-lizard encounter. We have never before seen a lizard of any kind in our neighborhood. It probably was a Northern Alligator Lizard, based on range, but we did not get a close look.
