5/21/09: A Steller's jay was ready to eat my breakfast off my plate. He got quite pissed off when I fought back. Birds like these, ravens, and crows area a growing problem in many areas. They're edge territory birds, and we've been expanding edge territories to the point that there's barely anything left that's not an edge (if you cut a road through a forest, there's two new edges right in the middle of old growth). In Redwood National Forest, they've been eating the eggs and young of the marbled murrlet, a realtive of the Puffin, so much that that bird is now critically endangered. The murrlet roosts in old growth redwoods, which are usually far from the aggressive edge territory birds, but no longer.