Subject: [Tweeters] Lewis's Woodpecker in Skagit
Date: Tue May 8 20:32:43 PDT 2018
From: Philip Dickinson - pdickins at gmail.com

This morning, our Pilchuck Audubon birding group found a Lewis's Woodpecker
at the Northern State Recreation Area off of Hwy. 20 east of Sedro-Wooley.
The bird was on the top of a dead tree trunk in a field in the southwest
portion of the park near the southwest marsh area. The backlighting was
terrible, but we could see the rosy belly and dark back, and the posture
and shape identical to the Lewis's at Magnuson Park. Unfortunately, after
about a minute the bird flew to the northwest as far as we could see
without landing elsewhere in the park. It flew more like a crow than with
the undulating flight of other woodpeckers. One of our party was able to
get a distant photo that was sufficient to confirm the ID.

Was the Magnuson bird seen today? Any chance this cold be the same bird?

Phil Dickinson
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