Fleur Ng'weno, a birder visiting from Nairobi, and I went out to Eastern
Washington on Friday, 5/21. A few miles down Umptanum Rd from
Ellensburg, not too far from where the road turns to gravel, we saw a
Pileated Woodpecker, and observed it drumming on a power pole. The
habitat here was shrub-steppe, with a very small patch of riparian
woods...it didn't seem like enough woods to support a Pileated
Woodpecker.

Rachel Lawson
Seattle
rachelwl at msn.com