I spent a couple of hours in the Slide Creek Fire in Little Pend Oreille NWR. Woodpecker numbers are finally picking up for the year. At one point I had more than a dozen woodpeckers of 5 species that I could see or hear at the same time. I was able to locate one Pileated and two Black-backed nests. Also found a Mountain Bluebird nest in one of last year?s holes. Overall a nice morning and I Could have spent all morning there but for some reason the family expects me to around for dinner, being Memorial Day and such. For those of you who signed up for the Little Pend Oreille tour during the WOS conference in Spokane in a couple of weeks this will be the first stop on the refuge. All told I had:



Ruffed Grouse

Wild Turkey

Hairy Woodpecker

White-headed Woodpecker

Black-backed Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

Western Wood-pewee

Common Raven

Mountain Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

House Wren

Pacific Wren

Mountain Bluebird

American Robin

MacGillivray?s Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow-rumped (Audubon?s) Warbler

Spotted Towhee

Dark-eyed Junco

Chipping Sparrow

Western Tanager

Black-headed Grosbeak

House Finch

Pine Siskin

Red Crossbill





Mike Munts

Colville, WA