[EBB Sightings] Need Woodpecker Help

Hi, Blaine.
   It was in all probability a Nuttals. A ladderback here would be out of its range. (But wilder things have happened.)
Peace,
Alan Howe
North Oakland

--- On Wed, 2/17/10, banderson1234 at aol.com  wrote:

> From: banderson1234 at aol.com 
> Subject: [EBB Sightings] Need Woodpecker Help
> To: sightings at diabloaudubon.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 12:51 PM
> Two days ago in my Moraga yard, I
> briefly saw (from a distance) a heavily black and white
> striped bird that I think was either a Nuttall's or a
> Ladder-Backed Woodpecker working hard on cracking some
> goodies open on the branch of my mulberry tree. The bird
> flew off before I could get my binocs and zoom in on the
> head. Can anyone tell me which of the two types I most
> likely saw? (I'm somewhat new to birding.) Thanks so much.
> Blaine in Moraga
> BAnderson1234 at aol.com
> 
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