Hi Tweeters!

Yesterday on a hike to Bean Creek Basin, we got to watch what looked like a male Williamson's Sapsucker coming and going to a nest hole in a snag, feeding a very noisy brood. Would the male be doing this? I can't think what species' female would look like that: roughly the size of a Hairy Woodpecker, solid black back and tail, white horizontal marks on head/face, big solid white patch along each side. Didn't get a good look at the front throat/belly. We watched it when we went up the trail and again when we went down. Didn't see a female at all, tho' she might've been in there with the babes (?). So that's my question...would a male Williamson's be doing the busy feeding job?

Also seen:
dozens of Western Tanagers (one almost mistook me for a perchable tree branch)
American Dippers
flycatchers galore (unfortunately silent)
Yellow-Rumped Warblers in full breeding plumage
Chipping Sparrows (many!)
Hermit Thrushes
Cassin's Finch
Black Swifts
Lincoln's Sparrows
Mountain Chickadee
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Lazuli Bunting (I think...)


Brenda Burnett

Seattle

beaknbird at hotmail dot com



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