Tweets,

I can add one note to the Lewis' Woodpecker conversation: I spotted one
in King County, where they are vagrants, last Saturday in the upper Green
River basin above Lester (counted as "OB" "observed" for Breeding Bird
Atlas purposes).

Gene Hunn.

On Fri, 25 Aug 1995 Jerry_Tangren at tfrec.ncw.net wrote:

> >i finished up a raft trip down the Salmon River a week ago and was
> >impressed by the large numbers of Lewis' Woodpeckers. there were more
> >than 150 in the last half of the trip (approx. 60 miles). this was far
> >more than my last trip down the river a couple of years ago.
> >
> >do Lewis' cycle as well?
> >
> >i finished up a raft trip down the Salmon River a week ago and was
> >impressed by the large numbers of Lewis' Woodpeckers. there were more
> >than 150 in the last half of the trip (approx. 60 miles). this was far
> >more than my last trip down the river a couple of years ago.
> >
> >do Lewis' cycle as well?
> >
> >dale goble
> >moscow, idaho
>
> On our trip last week up to Winthrop, Lorna and I were impressed by the
> number of Lewis Woodpeckers along the Methow River. After seemingly many
> years of scant numbers, this is a good year.
>
> Roger Pfeffer in a post a few days ago also noted the Lewis Woodpeckers.
>
> Lewis Woodpeckers do cycle in numbers, especially where their populations
> are dependent upon oak mast. You can ask if our numbers are due to a factor
> where we live or where the woodpeckers live in the winter. However, a good
> production of young birds could also bring the numbers up very quickly.
>
> It's often too easy to point to the local weather, but I will anyway. The
> following text was prepared by Tim Smith, WSU-Cooperative Extension.
>
> --Jerry Tangren
>
>
>
> North Central Washington Public Ag Weather System
> Averages For July
>
> Calculated From P.A.W.S. And WSU-TFREC BBS Data
>
> July is usually the hottest and driest of the year, and the weather places
> quite a stress on the trees. Fruit size and quality is often lowered when
> the weather is abnormally hot. This July was quite normal, unlike the
> overly hot July 1994, which means that the potential for disorders such as
> cork spot of pear, doudling and suturing of cherry, and bitter pit of apple
> is lower this year than last.
>
>
> July rainfall totals:
>
> TFREC .39 --------- July Average :0.24 Inches
> Baker Flats .35
> Brewster .47
> Pogue Flats .19
> Tonasket .15
> Ellisford .18
> Oroville .14
>
> July average high and low temp
>
> (TFREC 53 Year Avr. 87.6 Hi 56.9 Low
>
> TFREC 86.1 58.8
> Baker Flats 86.4 59.0
> Brewster 87.4 60.7
> Pogue Flats 85.8 57.4
> Tonasket 87.4 54.2
> Ellisford 87.7 54.5
> Oroville 85.9 57.8
> Bermuda 87.3 64.1
>
> Winter total rain - since october 1 1994
>
> ( average at WSU-TFREC for past 53 years: Oct-through July: 8.96 in. )
>
> TFREC 14.29 Inches (53 Year Average For Total Year:9.92)
> Baker Flats 11.71 (We Are Already At 150 Percent Of
> Brewster 14.23 Normal)
> Pogue Flats 14.39
> Tonasket 13.83 ------- (June: 1.73 Inches)
> Ellisford 13.31 ------- (June: 2.35 Inches)
> Oroville 13.08 ------- (June: 2.15 Inches)
>
>
>
> Tim Smith
> Tim_Smith at tfrec.ncw.net
> WSU Cooperative Extension--leave me a mail message
>
>
>