These images were captured by Kirk Gooding at Grizzly Peak Winery December 4, 2019. That is in the Cascades foothills north of Ashland at about 2500 feet. Kirk and his wife Shannon Rio (president of the KLamath Bird Observatory Board of Directors) enjoyed watching this bird at work:
Strange get-up, ordinary behavior. Male according to the large reddish skull-cap.
Thanks for sharing, Kirk.
A couple years back there was a blond Acorn found in Jackson County by Emmalisa Whalley.
I have encountered a number of leucistic critters in my time. There was a doe in Shasta Valley years ago. Last year this doe here in McMinnville, click for image.
A white-backed red-tail nesting with a normal-looking partner near Chico. BTW I’ll be back at the Chico Goose Festival next month, leading trips and giving talks.
Bald Eagle on Samish Flats, Washington State.
In the bird world I have seen many unexpectedly white or overly white birds: Surfbird, California Towhee, robin and Song Sparrow in San Francisco. Brewer’s Blackbird in Medford. Fox Sparrow. Chickadees in several places. Click here for robin with too much white to be ordinary…in Wisconsin.
White headed Cackling Goose at Fernhill in Washington County, click here.
Canada Goose at Howard Prairie Lake, Jackson County.Canada Goose at Howard Prairie Lake, Jackson County.
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[…] From my birding friend Karl Schneck near Ashland in Jackson County. Here’s his response to my blog about the leucistic Acorn Woodpecker. […]
By: WATCHING MELANERPES | Towheeblog on December 8, 2019
at 6:18 pm
He’s showing up again at Grizzly Peak Winery . I managed to get a couple of pictures of him among the oak leaves.
By: Mick Smith on August 7, 2020
at 3:41 pm
We have a bird we cannot find anywhere in our bird book? I first thought we had a albino woodpecker, but it’s feathers seem to be very white and fluffy with a peach/red large spot on it’s head,with looks like black an white ladders on back. It’s a large bird and large black beek, stayed this way for over 3 months just refined feathers a bit? Eats only suet and large peanuts, still here for winter? Kalamazoo Michigan. Help me? I can get a picture if needed. Thanks
By: Paul Parks on January 15, 2023
at 7:15 am
Sorry to post again but closest bird I have found is the acorn woodpecker found in Ashland. But our woodpecker has many white feathers like baby fluffy ones everywhere? But feathers still there 3 months later?
By: Paul Parks on January 15, 2023
at 7:21 am
picture please:
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any species can be leucistic …not an acorn, you’re in the Midwest…habitat? size of hairy? yellow-bellied?
By: atowhee on January 15, 2023
at 5:38 pm