Subject: Lewis Woodpeckers
Date: Aug 25 09:03:54 1999
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Kelly and Tweeters,
I agree with Kelly it is verry rare to find Lewis Woodpeckers on the west
site. But there been sighings of one individual sightings as of latly at
the WEIR PRARIE.This would be a subject many Birders should make comment's
on.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma

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> From: Kelly Mcallister <mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Cc: Max Zahn <ZAHNHMZ at dfw.wa.gov>
> Subject: Re: Lewis Woodpeckers
> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:30 AM
>
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Rosalind Philips wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I was out at Bowerman Basin in Hoquiam and saw 5 Lewis
> > Woodpeckers feeding on choke cherries.
>
> Any corroboration of Lewis' Woodpeckers at Bowerman? I am in no position
> to question Rosalind's identification but this seems to me to a most
> extraordinary sighting. Any Lewis' Woodpecker sighting in Western
> Washington is noteworthy and should be documented as carefully as
possible.
>
> I can't make it out to Bowerman for the foreseeable future so I would
> appreciate hearing from others who might.
>
> Kelly McAllister
> Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife