Subject: Lewis Woodpeckers
Date: Aug 26 22:07:59 1999
From: Wilson E Cady - gorgebirds at juno.com


There have been a couple of reports to me of LEWIS' WOODPECKERS from
Clark County this summer. They were a fairly common species at
Ridgefield, about twenty years ago.

Wilson Cady

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:03:54 -0700 "Ruth Sullivan"
<godwit at worldnet.att.net> writes:
> 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
>
> ----------
> > 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.
> >

Wilson Cady
Washougal, WA.
gorgebirds at juno.com