[obol] coastal white-headed WP question

[Mike Patterson]

Most extra-limital woodpecker movement (and I'm lumping all species)
tends to be in winter and early spring.  Neal Maine's record from
Clatsop was early spring.  

It's seems kind of early for coastward dispersal, even from the
Siskyous, but as Arch said not completely out of the realm of possibility.

On the other, hand the Oregon coast is rife with small corvids 
sporting white in weird places.  There's a crow in Seaside that routinely
gets turned in as a magpie.  And how many "white-headed" crows have 
we all seen that were really just carrying a big wad of bread in their
mouth?

This desperately needs second-hand confirmation before we put too
much stock in it.

Arch McCallum wrote:
> 
> There is a dark hexagon at the s edge of Josephine county in the
> atlas, not to mention some in Jackson. Added to Dennis's suspicion
> below about Curry and the fact that the time of year is pretty good
> for dispersing juveniles, the record does't seem too implausible.
> That doesn't mean the i.d. was correct, of course, but not implausible.
> Arch McCallum
> Eugene
> 


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