I have seen RED=BREASTED SAPSUCKERS in my Twin Lakes neighborhood
throughout the year and for many years. I also posted a note on
Crossbills on April 22nd, and also mentioning a RED-BREASTED
SAPSUCKER excavating a nest hole and a HAIRY WOODPECKER feeding its
young at Dumas Bay Park, Federal Way, WA. They are very definite
lowland breeders.

Regards,

Hans Feddern
Twin Lakes - Federal Way, WA.

On 5/4/09, Marc Hoffman <tweeters at dartfrogmedia.com> wrote:
>
> At 03:34 PM 5/4/2009, you wrote:
>
>
> Both Red-breasted Sapsuckers and Hairy Woodpeckers breed in the
> undeveloped eastern half of Juanita Bay Park, which is more forested
> than the west half that most people visit. I also see Pileated
> Woodpeckers regularly throughout the year, though they do not nest in
> the park.
> Last year, Red-breasted Sapsuckers successfully bred in our rvery
> esidential neighborhood in Kirkland, in a dead snag right beside a 12-foot
> (or so) swath of grass (plus a few blackberry brambles) abutting 128th Ave
> NE, just across from Mark Twain Elementary School. I was lucky enough to
> snap a photo of one of the youngsters fledging from the cavity, hence my
> determination that it was a successful nest. A week or so later, a road crew
> cut the snag back severely, but what's left is still about fifteen feet tall
> and shows continuing woodpecker activity, so perhaps there'll be a new
> excavation and nest this year.
>
> Marc Hoffman
> Kirkland, WA
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