Subject: [Tweeters] Re: FW: White-headed Woodpecker, Railroad Ponds, Cle Elum
Date: Mon May 7 09:13:43 PDT 2018
From: Kevin Lucas - vikingcove at gmail.com

Yay!

Kevin

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Jeff Kozma <jcr_5105 at charter.net> wrote:


> Hello, Tweeters.

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> Thank you so much for reporting this bird again! It is great to know that

> he is on a territory. A little history on this bird…he had quite an

> upbringing. His father was banded in 2013 (YWWX, but is now only WWX as he

> lost his right yellow band) in the Wenas near the Mud Flats Road as a

> hatch-year bird (HY). He has bred in the Wenas starting in 2015 (we did

> not find a breeding attempt in 2014, but that doesn't mean it didn't

> happen). Last year he was breeding near the Ellensburg-Wenas Road with an

> unbanded female. Sometime after the eggs hatched, the female disappeared

> (probably killed by a raptor). He was left to raise the nestlings

> himself. He fledged 2 nestlings, both males, from this nesting attempt.

> We caught and banded both in late summer. This bird at the Railroad Ponds

> was one of his offspring and is banded Orange over Red on the right leg and

> metal (aluminum numbered band) over white on the left leg. Thus, this bird

> traveled a minimum straight line distance of about 23 miles! This is quite

> a good distance for a non-migratory woodpecker.

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> I thank everyone over the last few weeks who has seen this bird and

> reported it to us. This is vitally important information for our banding

> program and the first of "our" birds to be sighted by someone outside the

> study area! For all in tweeterville, please look carefully at all

> White-headed Woodpeckers (WHWO) wherever you are in WA and check their legs

> for bands. You can report the bands to me (email below) or on your ebird

> lists, starting with the right leg and then the left leg. Even if you only

> see two colored bands, sometimes that is enough to ID the bird. Every WHWO

> we band is given a unique color combination, but mated pairs, if we catch

> them in the same year, are banded the same color combo because we can tell

> the sexes by plumage. Also, if anyone sees any of our banded birds, or any

> banded bird for that matter, please fill out a band/color marker resighting

> report at https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/ . This will enable the

> bird banding lab to track resighting information in their database, you

> will receive a certificate stating information on where and when the bird

> was banded, and I will receive notification that a resighting has

> occurred. Reporting to the Bird Banding Lab demonstrates to them that

> banding is still an important endeavor and helps facilitate the

> continuation of projects like ours.

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> If others see this Cle Elum bird in subsequent years, report it again to

> me! That will give us some idea how long it occupies this territory.

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> Thanks all!

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> Jeff

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> Jeff Kozma

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> TFW Wildlife Biologist

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> Yakama Nation Fisheries Resource Management

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> P.O. Box 151

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> Toppenish, WA 98948

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> O - 509-865-5121 x 6343

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> C - 509-945-4926

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> F - 509-865-6293

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> e-mail - kozj at yakamafish-nsn.gov

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> website - Avian Research in Managed Ponderosa Pine Forests of Washington

> | Yakama Nation Fisheries

> <http://yakamafish-nsn.gov/restore/projects/avian-research-managed-ponderosa-pine-forests-washington>

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> *From:* rwlawson at q.com [mailto:rwlawson at q.com]

> *Sent:* Monday, May 07, 2018 12:03 AM

> *To:* tweeters at u.washington.edu

> *Cc:* kozj at yakamafish-nsn.gov; joe.brown at q.com

> *Subject:* White-headed Woodpecker, Railroad Ponds, Cle Elum

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> Today, Joseph Brown and I birded in the Cle Elum area. We were surprised

> to see a male White-headed Woodpecker at the Northern Pacific Railroad

> Ponds, close to the kiosk. I suspect that this is the same individual

> reported on 21 April by Jordan Gunn. If so, this bird has been in the area

> a while, and we saw him drumming, so perhaps he is setting up a territory.

> Interestingly, this woodpecker was color-banded. We couldn't get a good

> look at the bands; all I could see was white on the left leg (probably

> including the aluminum BBL band) and red on the right. This must be one of

> Jeff Kozma's banded birds.

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> There was plenty of other bird activity at the ponds, even in the middle

> of the day. A pair of Pygmy Nuthatches is nesting in a new snag, now that

> the old one has fallen down. A Merlin flew over, and Yellow-rumped

> Warblers were absolutely everywhere. Later, on Hwy 97, we saw a group of

> 12 disconsolate-looking Turkey Vultures in the trees, waiting out the

> rain. But Turkey Vultures always look disconsolate, don't they?

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> Rachel Lawson

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> Seattle

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> rwlawson at q.com

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