Saturday I had three Red-Breasted Sapsuckers (RBSA) on a pine tree in my yard. There is one RBSA who stays around all summer (year?), but these three were probably migrants. I took pictures of two of them.

Christine Southwick
NE 163rd and 28 Pl NE
Shoreline
clsouthwick at comcast.net

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> A few minutes ago I glanced out the window and saw a Red-breasted Sapsucker
> hitching up a small birch tree in my back yard, a species I've seen only a
> couple of times in the 15 years we've lived here. It flew to a Douglas-fir
> about a foot in diameter in the neighbor's yard and looked as if it were
> excavating a sap well. As I watched it, a Brown Creeper landed on the tree
> right below it, the first one I've ever seen here and one of the most common
> western WA passerine birds not yet on our yard list. What a thrill, as I've
> always assumed the trees in our yard were too small, and I can't see most of
> the big trees around here any more because our own planted yard has grown up
> too tall. I presume both of these birds are migrants, and I always wonder how
> much I'm missing when I'm not looking out the window!
>
> Perhaps because the trees and shrubs in the yard have grown up so densely, we
> have two wintering Fox Sparrows, also unprecedented.
> -----
> Dennis Paulson
> 1724 NE 98 St.
> Seattle, WA 98115
> 206-528-1382
> dennispaulson at comcast.net
>
>

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