Date: 8/12/26 5:26 pm From: Tim Reynolds via groups.io <tim83442...> Subject: Re: [IBLE] Pileated Woodpecker near Ashton
I have seen them several times in the Centennials above Kilgore, most often
on the trail to Aldous lake
Tim R
On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM Cliff Weisse via groups.io <cliffandlisa=
<octobersetters.com...> wrote:
> 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.
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> Cliff
> On 8/8/26 09:32PM, Ken Miracle via groups.io wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Aug 8, 2026, at 7:17 PM, Cliff Weisse via groups.io
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> 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.
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> Cliff
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> "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from
> us, but our sufficiency is from God" 2COR 3:5
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