Hi Tweets,

This Sunday (yesterday), Gene Revelas and I bushwhacked up into the Mt.
Hardy Burn (off US 20) and saw a Black-backed woodpecker. There were many
other birds in the area, including several Hairy Woodpeckers, Dusky and
Olive-sided Flycatcher, Mt. Bluebird, Creeper at a nest hole. Given the
other recent reports of Three-toed Woodpeckers at this location, and the
ample evidence of Pileated Woodpecker activity, In my opinion the struggle
up to the burn is well worth the effort!

On the way over from Seattle, we also stopped briefly at the 'boundary
ponds', where we had at least two American Redstarts, and Red-eyed Vireo,
McGillavry's Warbler, Warbling Vireo, Vaux's Swift, Pacific-Slope
Flycatcher. Black Swifts were very cooperative at Newhalem.

I believe directions to these locations have been previously posted on
Tweeters, but if anyone needs more information, I can dig it up and post it.
One thing: as far as I'm concerned, the 'trail' up to the burn from the
sand pile doesn't exist, or at least I've never been able to find it. I
just start walking uphill and take plenty of cookies.

Rick Romea
Seattle, WA
rromea at stioptronics.com

206-523-5831 (Home)
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Flying isn't the hard part; Landing in the net is.
- Mario Zacchini, sensational human cannonball.