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This Blue Jay represented the 1st photographed record for the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. It was found by Chuck Sexton (@gcwarbler) and Greg Lasley. This was part of a large Blue Jay invasion into parts of south Texas which began October 16, 1984. There is a write up on all this in North American Birds, Vol. 39, No. 1, p:77 and eBird info on this record is at:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17047053
I may transcribe the Blue Jay invasion info here at a later time if I get the time. Image scanned from a 35 mm slide.
This image is in the Texas Photo Record File at Texas A&M University as the first photo record of this species in deep south Texas.