Hello Robert and Elaine,
It is so nice seeing you name again on Tweeters. We missed you!!!!
Ya i missed Wenas this year chasing after the Bristle-thighed Curlew in O
CEAN shores and the Aactic Loon in Newport. Wenas is one of my favoured
place to bird the other Okanagon, where we going there next week. The
Red-naped Supsucker is the most seeing there in the area. It was certainly
a treat to see the Williamson's on a nest there. Wilson Cady is usual the
only group (hike all day in the higher elevation) where ther find sometime
snow yet.I will post some good photos from the Red-naped Supsucker taken
rigt in camp.
Ruth

----------
> From: Robert Taylor <taylorrt at foxinternet.net>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: new photos
> Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 11:32 PM
>
>
> HI Tweets
>
> There have been a lot of new photos on the net lately and they are
greatly
> appreciated. I have not seen any photos of Red-naped Sapsuckers or have
> just missed them.
>
> In response to the report of the birds at Wenas seen during the Audubon
> Camp Out, Elaine and I stopped by on our way back from business in the
Tri
> Cities and caught some great views including a California Quail pair with
> 14 chicks that were probably only a day or two old. We hoped for the
> Williamson's Sapsuckers that had been reported nesting but didn't find
> them. We did however locate two nest holes for Red-naped (I don't recall
> seeing them mentioned on the report and thought that Wenas is west of
their
> range -- did we miss ID them?!). Both are active and one would present
> an excellent photo op for someone in the area. Right where you have to
> unhook the gate across the road, there is standing water off to the left.
> In one of the first trees past the gate in the standing water and only a
> couple of feet high is a nest hole facing the road. It is only about
> twenty feet from where you stop to rehook the gate! The other nest hole
is
> about 3.0 to 3.1 miles from where Malloy and Wenas and Audubon road split
> at the pavement. There are a number of dead Cottonwoods off to the right
> and a less travelled road forks to the right and goes past them.
Standing
> on the road and looking at the Cottonwoods, check out the leftmost ones.
> One is broken off at about twenty-five feet and the one to its right goes
> from a single trunk to a double trunk (forks). In the broken off one
near
> the top of the main trunk is a nest hole visible from the road. Both the
> male and female are apparently feeding young and come and go every few
> minutes. If you miss the dead cottonwoods and come to post with Ba(?)bek
> Sp written vertically on it, you have gone just a shade too far!
>
> The crop of Bluebirds is impressive this year and Nighthawks were
involved
> in some acrobatics.
>
> Excellent day!
>
> Good Luck and Good Birding
>
> Elaine and Bob
> Federal Way, WA
> taylorrt at foxinternet.net
>