Date: 8/12/26 5:03 pm From: Cliff Weisse via groups.io <cliffandlisa...> Subject: Re: [IBLE] Pileated Woodpecker near Ashton
As far as I know they've always been in the Wood River/Sun Valley area but, aside from one old record in the Centennial Mountains, they were not known in eastern Idaho.
Cliff
On 8/8/26 09:32PM, Ken Miracle via groups.io wrote: > Pileated have been in the Wood River Valley riparian for at least the > last 10 years. They were my nemesis for some time. I finally went up > and saw them for the first time when I knew what I was seeing at > Ponderosa State Park. Shortly after being surrounded by mom dad and > the kids at Ponderosa I had one fly over my head and land in a tree at > the Intermountain Bird Observatory Lucky Peak banding station Now I > see and hear them quite frequently all along the Boise Front and they > are regulars at IBO Lucky Peak. There have been a few unconfirmed > sightings in the last couple of years along the Boise River upstream > from the start of the Bethine Church River Trail upstream to Lucky > Peak Dam. Last year I heard one at Barber Park but could not find it. > >> On Aug 8, 2026, at 7:17 PM, Cliff Weisse via groups.io >> <cliffandlisa...> wrote: >> >> A couple days ago I was stuck at a road construction site on US 20 @ >> Ashton Hill, about five miles north of Ashton and Pileated Woodpecker >> flew across the road and landed in a tree it started hammering on. >> This is by far the furthest south I've seen one in eastern Idaho. For >> whatever reason they have moved into the Centennial Mountains along >> the Idaho/Montana border (as well as the Gallatin valley and Bozeman, >> MT area). Maybe they're going to start showing up in riparian areas >> in the upper Snake River Valley? Time will tell. >> >> Cliff >> >> -- >> Cliff and Lisa Weisse >> Island Park, Idaho >> <cliffandlisa...> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > Ken Miracle > <chukar28...> > 208-570-2780 > "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming > from us, but our sufficiency is from God" 2COR 3:5 > >
-- Cliff and Lisa Weisse Island Park, Idaho <cliffandlisa...>
