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Subject: Red Headed Woodpecker
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 16:45 pm
From: paulgraham AT wowway.com

  I think it's important to report anytime one of these is observed (and 
I see them so infrequently):  Anyway I saw one today along Middleboro 
Road, in Warren County, just east/northeast of Fort Ancient State 
Memorial.  This location was probably around 3 miles north of the SR 350 
and Middleboro Road intersection.  I was able to pull off the road and 
watch it working in 3 trees.  Always a thrill to see a RHWP!

Paul Graham

Paul's right. This beauty has become a tough bird to find, though it was 
once called "the most abundant and best known of all our woodpeckers" in 
Wheaton's Birds of Ohio (1882). Trautman counted as many as 40 a day 
found as traffic roadkills during Ohio surveys during the 1920s and 
‘30s. Farmers regarded them as an agricultural pest and shot them. Their 
nest sites in dead trees and poles are far more often quickly removed. 
Cutting rural tree stands, especially the beech trees on which they fed 
in winter, have taken a toll. See 'em while you can.
Bill Whan

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