Tweeters,

Phil Bartley and I birded a large burn which straddles Forest Road 52
southeast of Ukiah )in northeastern Oregon) 19 July, thanks to a tip from
Mike and Merry Lynn Denny. This is a very large burn , indeed, probably at
least 10 miles long by an undetermined miles in width. However, though
extensive, there are patches of live trees, leading to a mosaic of
burn/non-burned terrain, as seems typical of eastside forests.

By stopping 10-12 times along the road, which begins low in the ponderosa
pine zone and goes up into the subalpine (burn the whole way), we found the
following woodpeckers:

Williamson's Sapsucker - 2
Hairy Woodpecker - 14
White-headed Woodpecker - 4, mostly lower pine areas
Three-toed Woodpecker - 1
Black-backed Woodpecker - 2
Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker - 21

We also noted both all three nuthatches, 8 Brown Creepers, both Western and
Mountain Bluebirds, and Lincoln's Sparrows (higher stream bottoms). South
of Ukiah, we observed a fledged family group of Bobolinks

Neat area, eastern Oregon is a neat - big, wild and with plenty of open
spae.

Andy Stepniewski
Wapato WA