Not having any notes in front of me I can say I certainly have had a pair at
the Soup Springs campground every summer for the past 8 years. They have
been quite reliable. I had birds up the trail into the wilderness area most
years, and at various locations along the Forest Service road heading back
towards Mill Creek. Most of my stays up here have been late Jun/ July. I
never really considered them uncommon simply because they seemed to be at
hand both in the campground and away from it. There is a huge amount of
diseased and dead wood in that area, and I have found it to be thick with
woodpeckers, Pileated and otherwise.
--
Kevin McKereghan
San Francisco CA
Theman@...

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather
suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is
not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on
the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont





From: John Sterling <jsterling@...>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:32:53 -0700
To: <modoc-siskiyoubirding@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [modoc-siskiyoubirding] Pileated Data






I surveyed Soup Springs area for the Forest Service often in 1990 and 1991
and never detected Pileated Woodpeckers there. Please send me the dates or
at least years that you have found them in the South Warners¡ªalso the
locations too. If your records are based on just one or a few pairs, then
I¡¯d be hesitant to claim that they were fairly common in the South Warners.

John Sterling

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From: modoc-siskiyoubirding@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:modoc-siskiyoubirding%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:modoc-siskiyoubirding@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:modoc-siskiyoubirding%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Kevin
McKereghan
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:11 PM
To: modoc-siskiyoubirding@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:modoc-siskiyoubirding%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [modoc-siskiyoubirding] Pileated Data

In the South Warner©ös they are fairly common, certainly in the Soup Springs
area I have seen them daily, and heard far more often, over the course of
multiple summers.
--
Kevin McKereghan
San Francisco CA
Theman@... <mailto:Theman%40thegasstation.net>
<mailto:Theman%40thegasstation.net>

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather
suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is
not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on
the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

From: carolspencer <rriparia@... <mailto:rriparia%40charter.net>
<mailto:rriparia%40charter.net> >
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 06:55:55 -0000
To: <modoc-siskiyoubirding@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:modoc-siskiyoubirding%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:modoc-siskiyoubirding%40yahoogroups.com> >
Subject: [modoc-siskiyoubirding] Pileated Data

I checked the Pileated Woodpecker BBS data for the Lakeview BBS route. Only
1 has been detected during a count period. And that was in 2006 or so. So,
that appears to support John Sterling's point about their more recent
increase in numbers. That data doesn't seem to support the uncommon status
I mentioned, according to what I've recorded during the BBS. I have however,
heard them outside count times, and so might be a reason why I mentioned an
uncommon status. I should have looked up the data before I mentioned that. I
generally regard a Pileated Woodpecker observation very noteworthy in
forests east of the Cascades, and especially in Lake Co, OR.

Kevin Spencer
Klamath Falls, OR
rriparia@... <mailto:rriparia%40charter.net>
<mailto:rriparia%40charter.net>
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