From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Aug 4 22:09:18 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7557OOQ029764 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.185]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i7556BMR029720 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO delldrk3) ([[email protected]]@66.127.55.111 with login) by smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Aug 2004 05:06:10 -0000 Message-ID: <002501c47aaa$2a1ba3e0$6401a8c0@delldrk3> From: "Dave Kiehl" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:07:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] odd-looking Woodpecker X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5283253681586122==" Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============5283253681586122== Content-Type: multipart/related; type="multipart/alternative"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0021_01C47A6F.78BDCE00" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C47A6F.78BDCE00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BlankAt Almaden Lake this evening at about 7:40 PM, in a big sycamore = tree, I saw what must have been a NUTTALL's Woodpecker. Its back had = cleanly defined white and black stripes with a solid black gap between = the top stripe on its back and the buffy-color on the back of its head. = What I found odd was that its underside was buffy except for some black = spots on its flanks. The black spots were much more sparse than shown in = Sibley. The light colored stripes on the side of its face and above its = bill were also buffy. The lower stripe on the side of its face looked = more like the one on the Adult Pacific Hairy Woodpecker in Sibley and = the upper stripe like that shown for the Ladder-Backed. The only white I = could see was the stripes on its back. I watched the bird for 5 - 10 = minutes and at one point it was in a branch only 10 -15 feet away. Just = before it flew north, it tried to enter a hole in one of the branches = that turned out to be already occupied by an unidentified bird. Although = it was hammering at the branches it was on, it made no sound - it was = only grazing the surface, occasionally flaking off a small piece of the = bark. Because the bird was never less than 5 feet above me, I didn't get = a good look at how much red it had on its head, but it did have some. Are Nuttall's Woodpecker's often buffy like this? The ones I've seen at = my feeders have always been white and black with the red head patch. The = stripes on their head have always been thinner, too. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C47A6F.78BDCE00 Content-Type: image/gif; name="Blank Bkgrd.gif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: <002001c47aaa$2511f7a0$6401a8c0@delldrk3> R0lGODlhLQAtAID/AP////f39ywAAAAALQAtAEACcAxup8vtvxKQsFon6d02898pGkgiYoCm6sq2 7iqWcmzOsmeXeA7uPJd5CYdD2g9oPF58ygqz+XhCG9JpJGmlYrPXGlfr/Yo/VW45e7amp2tou/lW xo/zX513z+Vt+1n/tiX2pxP4NUhy2FM4xtjIUQAAOw== ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C47A6F.78BDCE00-- --===============5283253681586122== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]] --===============5283253681586122==--