[obol] Black-backed WP on Hart Mt. (Was: Coos woodpecker?)

[Hendrik Herlyn]

I've seen Black-backed Woodpeckers in the North Warner Mtns., where they probably breed. From there, they would "just" have to cross the Warner Valley to make it over to Hart Mt. - not too far as the woodpecker flies, albeit across an open expanse of sagebrush and the Warner Lakes ...

Hendrik

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--- On Tue, 7/29/08, Jeff Gilligan <jeffgill at teleport.com> wrote:
From: Jeff Gilligan <jeffgill at teleport.com>
Subject: Re: [obol] Coos woodpecker?
To: "David Fix and Jude Claire Power" <dfxjcp at humboldt1.com>, "OBOL" <obol at oregonbirdwatch.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 1:10 PM

Re: [obol] Coos woodpecker?


I long ago wondered why we never had any reports of vagrant Black-backed or Three-toed Woodpeckers to the coastal areas with stands of Shore Pine (Pinus contorta).  (I am now barred from finding the first unless it is photographed.)  Jeff Gilligan.





On 7/29/08 12:57 PM, "David Fix Jude Power" <dfxjcp at humboldt1.com> wrote:



 

Is it possible that the bird reported on the coast at Sunset Beach was actually an Acorn Woodpecker?  Think about it: they have bold white patches in the wings and white on the head.  I think this species is MUCH more likely to occur on or near the southern Oregon coast than a White-headed Woodpecker.  They occur to within a few miles of the coast in northwest California wherever there is tan oak (a shade-tolerant forest oak whose acorns they eat).  I know Jim Rodgers has seen the species at least once at his place outside Port Orford--which has tan oak.  Even in Redwood National Park there are Acorn Woodpeckers wherever there are tan oaks here and there (I would not include this report in your Coos County book, Tim R., unless the observer can be absolutely positive that it was not an Acorn Woodpecker).   

 

Trivia- the northernmost tan oak known to me, a disjunct population for sure, occurs just northeast of the town of Idleyld Park, in n-c Douglas County, up a stream called Rock Creek.  It was shown to me in 1991 by a gifted and energetic botanist named Ray Godfrey, who died not long after that outing.

 

Steve Dougill's report of a Black-backed Woodpecker at Hart Mountain was interesting.  Are there any other reports from there?  Imagine the habitat barrier such a bird would have had to cross, if it's actually out of place.  Anyone know?

 

David Fix

Arcata, California

 

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