Jasper Jay in "Solomon Owl's Eyes"

Anyhow, to Jasper Jay the horrid cry sounded as if it were just behind him. He never knew before that he could fly so fast. And some of his friends, who saw a blue streak in the twilight, did not even recognize him.
For several days afterward, Noisy Jake, whom Jasper passed in his headlong flight, talked about the blue lightning he had seen when he was going home from the nutting party.
And since nobody could prove that he was mistaken, no one was so foolish as to dispute him.And that was the way that Jasper Jay learned something about Solomon Owl's eyes—and something about manners, too.