Subject: [Tweeters] Three-toed Woodpeckers in N. Cascades on 8/18/07 and
Date: Sep 18 21:45:05 2007
From: Daoud Miller - Daoud_Miller at comcast.net


My wife and I observed Three-toed Woodpeckers in the same place on both
Aug. 18 and Sept. 14: Thunder Knob Trail out of the north Colonial
Creek Campground on Hwy. 20 in the N. Cascades Nat'l Recreation Area,
near the top/end of the trail as it first plateaus out, just before the
small tarn (now nearly dry), a short ways before trail's end at the top
of Thunder Knob.

On Aug. 18, there were 2-3 different males: the first before the
little lake and the second at the lake had distinctly different head
markings. Two more birds were sighted after the lake, but not clearly
enough to positively distinguish them from the earlier 2 birds.

On Sept. 14, the one sighted male was in the same location as the first
bird seen on Aug. 18. At the little lake, we then observed a
Red-breasted/Red-naped hybrid Sapsucker.

Later that morning, off the trail and down in the south campground
entry parking lot, I again watched for awhile another
Red-breasted/Red-naped hybrid. With the Pileated and the N. Flicker in
the campground, we were happy to have had a 4-woodpecker day!

Daoud Miller
Seattle, WA
Daoud_Miller at comcast.net