Ron Erpelding and I just returned from a three-day trip to northwest Minnesota. While visiting Hayes Lake State Park in Roseau County, we talked to a park ranger who mentioned that there had been a fire nearby a few months ago. When we visited the area, we were delighted to find at least 3 and probably 4 Black-backed Woodpeckers there.
The exact location is along the Thompson Forest Rd about 6 or 7 miles northeast of the Hayes Lake State Park entrance (where CR4 ends). We were told several thousand acres burned, but crews have been working at cleaning out the burned trees so much of it is already gone. The area where we found most of the birds is the first burnt area we came to on the left (northwest) side of Thompson Forest Road. The birds were moving around quite a bit, so it was difficult to keep track of exactly how many BB Woodpeckers there were. I suspect there are more that we didn't see. Herb Dingmann ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
