[SBB] woodpecker @ steven's creek dam

[Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>]

drove up to steven's creek dam yesterday; on the way up the hill, to  
my surprise there was a woodpecker sitting on a utility wire hanging  
out. I was only half looking and worrying about the truck on my tail  
when I caught the flash of red; I ended up circling back and driving  
past again, and it was cooperative enough to not leave until I got in  
range a second time.

It had a much larger bill than the downy does, and was about the size  
of a large scrub jay, and the strip of red on the back of the head,  
so I'm tentatively IDing it as a hairy woodpecker, but I wish I'd had  
the ability to do more than a double-drive by.

the lake at the dam was quiet -- three double crested cormorants (one  
flying, one fishing, one trying to look like a loon in the distance),  
and one duck too far out to clearly ID...  no raptors while I was there.


-- 
Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
[[email protected]] -- http://chuqui.typepad.com/

The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging.



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