Subject: Subject: 3-Toed Woodpecker at Rainy Pass
Date: Jul 10 11:17:17 2004
From: Levine, Barron - LevineB at bsd405.org


Scott and Tweeters,
Another Williamson's site would be Bullfrog Flats near Salmon La Sac. Jack Stephens and I had one up there last weekend. For those interested, get off I-90 at the Salmon La Sac exit. Make a left (back over the freeway) and then take your first left onto a dirt road that climbs a hill. At the first crossroads park your car and proceed straight up the hill about 70 yards to a clearing on your left (south). The sapsucker was working the trees in the area. By the way, the area is also a good spot for Calliope Hummingbirds, Blue Grouse, and Nashville and McGillvray's Warblers.

Barry Levine
Seattle

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Atkinson [mailto:scottratkinson at hotmail.com]
Sent: Fri 7/9/2004 8:15 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Subject: RE: Subject: 3-Toed Woodpecker at Rainy Pass



Tweeters:

I too had success with Three-toed along this trail on August 29th last year,
with a family group of 4 about a mile up. In general, the area at Rainy
Pass and below it on the Hardy Burn (west) side is real good, in fact on
July 16 last year I counted 7 birds total between the burn itself and a few
stops between there and the pass about 5 miles upslope, including an active
nest right along Hwy 20 about 100 yards below the parking lot for the
Cutthroat Pass trailhead. A single bird was also in the picnic area on the
opposite side of Hwy 20. Although other woodpeckers were present that day,
Three-toed was, remarkably, the most common woodpecker in the general area.

I too was unable to get any northern finches where the Cutthroat Pass trail
opens up, but there were plenty of Mt. Chickadees and a (Rocky Mt) Fox
Sparrow in the conifer woods, and coninuing up to Cutthroat Pass itself
there was much birdlife, including a couple flocks of Mt. Bluebirds,
impressive numbers of Townsend's and Yellow-rumped Warblers, a few other
warblers, a Hammond's Fly and several Townsend's Solitaires, 10 Chipping
Sparrows, a Cassin's Finch, and--the rarity of the day--Skagit County's
second Brewer's Sparrow, among others.

I recall someone recently doing a RFI on Williamson's Sapsucker. I would
continue east past Rainy and then Washington pass and try the Loup Loup
campground and nearby area.


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

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