Subject: [Tweeters] A white headed woodpecker eludes a hawk
Date: Nov 1 20:29:53 2009
From: Rob Sandelin - floriferous at msn.com


I hiked up the 8 mile lake trail today, had to hike up the road also since
it was closed as it crosses Icicle creek. Heading back On the way down the
trail there was a white headed woodpecker call and I looked up just in time
to see an unidentified accipter closing on the woodpecker. The woodpecker
did not fly, rather it zipped around the far side of the tree. To my
surprise, and disappointment, the hawk did not return, probably because I
involuntarily sort of yelled when I saw the hawk. The woodpecker did not
leave the tree for 15 minutes while I watched and finally the growing
shadows spurred my departure.

Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer, Teacher
Snohomish County