Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. As I got out of my car, about fifty feet from Manzanita Lake, I heard the loud drumming of a woodpecker. It was July of 2012. It was a cool 48 degrees.
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