Was it Herb Alpert who recorded "The Lonely Woodpecker?" Used to love that
song, late at night, flitting here and there, waiting for prospective mates
to return my calls.

Jack Kintner Blaine kintner at nas.com

At 08:50 AM 4/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
>There is a Pileated Woodpecker calling and calling from the isolated grove
>of Douglas-firs next to the building I'm working in on the UPS campus. The
>entire neighborhood is not very rich in trees, certainly not large trees.
>This is the first I've ever seen or heard from my office window in 11 years
>(species #46). I assume it's a wandering male (I don't know if the females
>call like the males; perhaps they do). We've had a male in the ravine
>behind our house in Seattle all winter, and it calls and calls and flies
>back and forth through the trees, I assume advertising for a mate which
>hasn't so far shown up. This gives you some perspective on the lives of
>individual birds, which are varied just like our own.
>
>Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-879-3798
>Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-879-3352
>University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
>Tacoma, WA 98416
>http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html