I recall a watering trough just a couple hundred yards up that road...
has had long-toed salamanders is it. I know that White-headed Woodies
are seen and/or heard regularly along the Umtanum Rd. in the pines just
to the north of the Observatory Rd. gate so these may be the same birds.
Is there another watering trough further up?

Gene Hunn.

On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Mark Colombino wrote:

> Tweeters,
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> I don't know if this constitutes a Kittitas co. sighting of whiteheaded
> woodpeckers but, on the back way into the Wenas, out of Ellensburg over
> Manastash ridge, there is an observatory 10 or so miles off the main road.
> Only 2 or 3 miles up the observatory road is a cattle watering trough where
> we've seen pairs of whiteheaded woodpeckers. Sorry for the sketchy
> directions, but my notes are at home. This might be Kittitas co. or it may
> be Yakima co. Hope this helps. Nice place to go but watch where you step.
>
> Mark Colombino
> mark_colombino at pacsci.org
> Pacific Science Center
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