[EBB Sightings] Need Woodpecker Help

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

That's what I'd guess, too. One thing to listen for if the bird returns: 
A Nuttall's will often trill - rather like a soft police whistle, if you 
can imagine such a thing - just before it flies. I've never heard a 
Ladder-backed Woodpecker, but the description looks different in 
Sibley's....

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