[EBB Sightings] Pileated Woodpecker in Lower Montclair, Oakland

Diane,
My wife and I saw a Pileated Woodpecker in Redwood Regional Park in 
1987. I contacted Joe Morlan, who suggested reporting the sighting to 
American Birds, where it appeared in vol. 42. Subsequently, a Pileated 
was seen on the Christmas count in the same general area.
John Harris
Oakland/Oakdale

Dianne Sierra wrote:
> A little after two Monday afternoon (April 28), while I was gardening 
> in my backyard, a Pileated Woodpecker called nearly over my head and 
> landed in a dead Monterey Pine nearby. By the time I had climbed down 
> a ladder, raced into the house for binoculars and back out and up the 
> hill, perusing the pine turned up nothing. But then another call came 
> from a redwood up a few houses. As I strained to find the bird, it 
> flew out across the street. I didn't see it clearly because there are 
> so many trees, but the size was right. It called again after four 
> o'clock and after five.
> Last year on June 7 I heard one call nearby once in the afternoon and 
> was so surprised that I thought I must not have been paying enough 
> attention because it shouldn't have been here. Then on June 12, I 
> heard both calling and drumming. At that point in time, my e-mail 
> wasn't working so I didn't report it.
> I have had a lot of experience with Pileateds since we bought a cabin 
> in the forest in southern Mendocino County eighteen years ago. We hear 
> and see them often and recently had one working a stump just 20' from 
> our kitchen.
> I am aware of sightings on the east side and near the crest of the 
> East Bay Hills but not lower down on the west side. I think that the 
> first East Bay occurrence was in the spring of 1991 in Canyon on the 
> east side. Our Not-So-Oldsquaws Birdathon team went after it.
> We are on Harbord Drive, which is two blocks below the Warren Freeway 
> (Hwy 13), in the first block south of Moraga Avenue at about 660' 
> elevation. I'd like feedback if there have been other observations 
> down on the west side.
> Dianne Sierra
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