Olive vs. El Pajaro

Olive is a city cat who was rescued from a storm drain in San Diego. She lived most of her nearly two years inside our house in the San Diego area. When I moved to Casa de Pajaro a month ago, I gave Olive the opportunity to spend days in the sun, enjoying the outdoors. She has new cat friends and loves chasing butterflies.



Every morning upon waking I start the coffee maching and head out the door to walk down the driveway to get the morning paper. Its a leisurely 400 ft walk down the drive past the big front lawn and the twin cedar trees to the main drive lined by ancient fig trees. Olive follows me on my morning stroll, but stops short of the end of the drive. Instead, she sits and waits for me to pick up the newspaper and head back to the house. The past few mornings there is a bird that is clearly disturbed by Olives presence. The aggressive little pajaro dive bombs Olive and not just once. The bird dives beak first down on the unsuspecting cat, who jumps startled and turns to look at me as if to say "what the hell?" I don't think my little city cat Olive never had a bird attack her in San Diego.



I was not familiar with this pajaro and did not have a bird book handy, but upon describing the bird to a friend, he looked up the pesky pajaro in his bird book and thought from my description the the bird could be a Grey Jay. This made sense to me because the bird behaved like a blue jay, but was a sort of taupe color and white with a touch of black. I Googled "Grey Jay" and I do believe this is the species that wants Olive to stay away from the tree lined drive.



Tomorrow I will be armed with a camera in hopes of capturing an image of the pajaro with the lens, perhaps during her kamikaze lunge at Olive.