[Vwoolf] Still on the early pages

[Mary Ellen Foley]

Jays are particoloured, though, sort if harlequin-ish, maybe...perhaps that
contributes to an air of frivolity, he thinks?

I read up about jays a few years ago when we had them in our garden.  To
someone who hasn't seen one before, they're really striking.  It may be
that their habit of buryng acorns, as squirrels do, is what populated
England with oaks, back in the mists of time.

I grew up with the American blue jay, and then in California became
accustomed to the Steller's jay.  (
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/blue_jay/id -- scroll down for photos;
then on the right of the photos, under Similar Species, scroll once for the
Steller's jay.the American blue jay is ghe prettiest, sez me.)

You don't have to be a birdwatcher --which is good, because I'm not one --
to be interested n them, as jays seem to demand that you notice them.  They
take center stage.  Maybe there's a bit of that about Clarissa, he thinks?

And as for blue-green, well, maybe Scropes isn't very observant, thinks the
blue patches on jays are iridescent or something?

(Sitting in Egypt years ago , not long married and in awe of my in-laws,
who are archaeologists, I was helping my mother-in-law with something on a
dig when she remarked on an amazingly green insect hoverng near us.  What I
saw was an almost unbelievably bright blue insect, but one doesn't tell
one's new mother-in-law that's she's gone potty.  She went on about it
being just the same green as their old pickup truck, which I'd seen, so it
was clear she really did believe it was green, so I mumbled something.  And
it moved, and became green from my angle, and blue from hers, and we
realized what was going on.  Amazing, really.)


mef

On Tuesday, September 17, 2013, Stuart N. Clarke wrote:

>
> Why does Scrope Purvis think Mrs D to be “a charming woman ... a touch of
> the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious ...”?
>
> Jays are *not* blue-green:
> http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/j/jay/index.aspx
> And, for that matter, there’s nothing charming, light or vivacious about
> their call.
>
> Stuart
>

On Tuesday, September 17, 2013, Stuart N. Clarke wrote:

>
> Why does Scrope Purvis think Mrs D to be “a charming woman ... a touch of
> the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious ...”?
>
> Jays are *not* blue-green:
> http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/j/jay/index.aspx
> And, for that matter, there’s nothing charming, light or vivacious about
> their call.
>
> Stuart
>
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