Sue and Tweeters:
Here are more directions (and more recent) to Black-backed Woodpeckers. See Ken Knittle's msg below.
Incidentally, Charlie Wright and I called in one 3-toed, and two Black-Backed Woodpeckers over on the east side of Naches Pass at about 4000 feet on June 22, '05 on a rainy day up on the gravel forest road. Unfortunately, that was just about the time I blew up the transmission on the Dodge Durango. Wotta bummer.
Yours, Carol Schulz
DesMoines

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From: washingtonbirder
To: Tweeters
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 8:36 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Black-backed Woodpecker


Today at Takhlakh Lake in northeastern Skamania County I ran into Marcus Roening who informed me about a Black-backed Woodpecker he had just seen. I drove up FR 2329 past the lake going towards Horseshoe Lake. Just as the roads nears a lot of lava rock on the left I had the male Black-backed Woodpecker across the road in a twin-top dead tree which had lots of fresh woodpeckers marks of activity. Marcus also informed me about seeing a Three-toed Woodpecker which is perfect habitat. I did not chase after it as we were up their on a family outing. Lots of Clark's Nutcrackers and Gray Jays everywhere. Also a pair of Lincoln's Sparrow between the campground and the day use area near a wooden foot bridge.

To get to Takhlakh Lake follow FR 23 south from Randle. Follow the signs. The last half is dusty gravel roads, but well worth it. We came home FR 90 down to Cougar with most of the road being paved.

A beautiful place to spend a day at the western base of Mt. Adams.

Ken Knittle
Vancouver, WA
washingtonbirder at hotmail.com


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