Carrol Cowan wrote:

>Also on Sunday, among the numerous Downies (and a Sapsucker) was a Hairy Woodpecker with very little white on the wings.  It looked like Sibley's "interior west" illustration.  I think there were 2 Hairies, but didn't get a good look at the first, so I can't be sure it wasn't the same one.
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>Carrol Cowan 
>Washington DC 
>arielamcATatt.net
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Hi Carol,

I agree with you, yesterday I saw a woodpecker at my feeders that
looked so different  I  went running for my field guides. Indeed, it
looked very much like the Sibley "interior west" Hairy Woodpecker.
Very little white on wings.

I've been getting more woodpeckers than usual this year -- Hairies,
Downies, and Red-Bellied.

Gayle

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