Given the deep freeze we just had, perhaps these flickers got creative with
night roosting sites, like maybe chimneys or car exhaust pipes. I remember
reading long ago (might have been in Larrison's Birds of Washington) about
someone who found a group of Bushtits in a car's tailpipe during a deep
freeze in Seattle long ago.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com


>From: Bruce Whittington <fieldnat at pacificcoast.net>
>Reply-To: fieldnat at pacificcoast.net
>To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: Black flicker
>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:26:37 -0800
>
>Ann Nightingale found a bird that sounds identical on the Duncan (Vancouver
>Island) CBC (Jan 3). It also looked small and she at first thought it might
>be a Lewis' Woodpecker (a former breeder on the Island, now only a vagrant)
>, but got closer and flicker markings began to show. Bright sunny day with
>snow on the ground so light was not a problem.
>
>Bruce Whittington
>Victoria, BC
>mailto: fieldnat at pacificcoast.net
>

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