Birding the Basin

June 30, 2008

While birding at Moore Park this Saturday I made the following interestingobservations: Several sightings of Acorn Woodpeckers including two adults doing a food exchange A pair of Ash-throated Flycatchers "investigating" a nesting box with an enlarged hole A pair or possibly more of Evening Grosbeaks seen on two occasions Distant drumming of what sounded like Ruffed Grouse Nest feeding observations of several House Wrens, one Pygmy Nuthatch and the nest of a Western Wood Pewee ? (I think) about 35 feet up in a ponderosa. Adult apparently incubating eggs with only head and tail visible.Dave Menke