[obol] coastal white-headed WP question

[Tim Rodenkirk]

Unfortunately, second hand confirmation 12+ days later is probably unlikely.  I won't be able to check on it for another day or so but will try and do so.

Tim R
Coos Bay


--- On Tue, 7/29/08, Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com>
> Subject: Re: [obol] coastal white-headed WP question
> To: "Arch McCallum" <archmcc at qwest.net>
> Cc: "OBOL" <obol at oregonbirdwatch.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 9:48 AM
> 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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