Yesterday while walking close to home in Cape George, Discovery Bay, I saw a
woodpecker hawking flying insects. I didn't get a good view and put it down
as a flicker behaving unusually.

Today I saw it clearly from our deck and got my scope on it. It is a first
year Lewis's woodpecker, with pink center breast flanked grey, all dark head
and the very characteristic irridescent dark green on its back.Again it was
hawking insects from a perch.

I think this is fairly unusual for the Olympic Peninsula.

Richard Isherwood

Port Townsend WA

Rjisherwood at gmail.com
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