Date: 9/24/26 3:32 pm
From: Justyn Stahl via groups.io <justyn.stahl...>
Subject: [LACoBirds] Channel Islands observations of Clark's Nutcrackers and Pinyon Jay
Yesterday (23 September), Jimmy McMorran messaged me from San Clemente
Island to report he'd seen and heard a Pinyon Jay, and possibly a second.
Later that afternoon, Nicole Desnoyers sent photos of a Clark's Nutcracker
in the parking lot of the field station in Wilson Cove. Both species were
previously unrecorded on San Clemente Island.

Today (24 September), I got word of 3 Clark's Nutcrackers seen by Kevin
Ryan on Catalina, at Haypress Reservoir. The Birds of California's Channel
Islands
<https://www.sbnaturestore.org/collections/museum-publications/products/birds-of-californias-channel-islands>
lists this species as a rare fall transient and winter visitor.

This irruption is something else!

Justyn Stahl
San Diego


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