Hi,

When I first moved to Bothell, I was really surprised at how often I
saw the local Pileateds. I hear them every couple of days, and I see
them from my yard about once a week. I also see them on a regular
basis while going down Locust Way/61st Ave N.E. going down into
Kenmore.

The surprising part of all this is that there really isn't a lot in the
way of big trees and dead trees around here which (among other things)
they seem to prefer. There is a lot of new houses going up too. Makes
me wonder how much longer they will be a part of the fauna of this
area...

Michael Dossett
Bothell Washington
phainopepla at yahoo.com

--- Duane Palmer <emdp at eskimo.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am generally a lurker on this list, and often
> envious of other peoples
> birding adventures, but I had a wonderful
> cooperative pileated encounter
> today.
> I was gardening-aka-birding by ear. I had heard a
> pileated and even
> glimpsed it twice over the previous couple of hours.
> (Pileateds are not
> unheard of in my neighborhood, but pretty uncommon.)

snip...
>
> Margie in Kenmore
>
>

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