Hawks Oaks Pigeons and Doves

The Washington P. ramorum-positive soil confirmation in December 2010 (reported on in Dec. COMTF newsletter) in a Gig Harbor, Pierce County landscape (adjacent to a previously positive repeat nursery) has been identified as the NA2 lineage. This is the first time this strain has been found outside of a nursery in soil. The confirmed site is along a drainage that had been found positive with infected salal plants in the summer of 2009.-- COMTF May 2011 The May 2011 newsletter from the California Oak Mortality Task Force http://www.suddenoakdeath.org

Near the large oak grove on Canal Rd. SE in Yelm - blue back, white
breast, brown neck collar or ring, long tail.
Appeared to be the size of a Scrub jay, or Stellar jay but its neck
ring was brown. Can Western Scrub Jays have brown neck rings?

Also spotted a hawk circling on the opposite side of the oak grove
further down the road chasing the
smaller birds out of the treeline to land in the evergreens.

The pigeons are back at the silo on Ordway/Wilkenson. There was a
pure white dove or pigeon flying over the canal last week.