Subject: [Tweeters] Elk Heights Burn
Date: Jun 7 20:41:39 2009
From: Eric Kowalczyk - aceros at mindspring.com


FYI: Two friends and I spent about an hour this afternoon at Elk Heights Burn in hopes of finding Black-backed woodpeckers. No luck. Someone (presumably the owners of the land) has been managing the area and has cut down about 25% of the burned trees (that were standing last year). Perhaps this discouraged the birds from nesting there this spring(??)

We were there from ~1500-1600 hrs. today and the area was quite active; birds seen:

Hairy woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Western wood peewee
Red crossbill
Cassin's finch
Purple finch
House finch
Pygmy nuthatch (nesting)
American robin
Mourning dove
White-crowned sparrow
Chipping sparrow
American kestrel
Turkey vulture (overhead)
Western bluebird
(that is all that I can recall right now)

Eric Kowalczyk
Seattle