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Okay, I am not a true-blue birder. I like birds, and I like feeding them, and I can ID all of the ones in the neighborhood, and also a few others. I've also been known to pull out the bird book and figure out what I just saw. But I don't know anything about life cycles or migration or anything, and I don't really have a list.

So--is there a molting season? I know birds molt, but ... well, okay, lemme explain and backtrack (it's an Erin story!).

We have this blue jay. This cranky, beaten-up, bedraggled blue jay. He comes to our feeder and has patches of feathers on his head, straggly back feathers, and today Scott said he looked like he'd survived a neck wringing. He seems healthy otherwise, but really, what the heck is up with him?

I've decided to call him Draggle.