A pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS have been cavorting around in my backyard trees
making their loud "interactive calls".
I could hear calls from inside the house w door shut!
Snow fall has brought lots of usual feeder birds, including CAROLINA WREN.
Donna Scott
Lansing
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All,
I knew it was going to be a good day when I saw one, two, three! Pileated
Woodpeckers fly across the back yard. A Pileated Family?
Regi
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. Mother Jones
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Marie Read has just posted a wonderful story on the Musicofnature web
site featuring an adult pileated feeding young in a nest cavity. There
are two photos and several sound recordings that document the action.
View it at http://www.musicofnature.org/pileated-woodpeckers-growing-up/
Bob
Meena’s comments on pileated woodpeckers in suburban and urban areas reminded
me that I found one (vocalizing frequently) in a tree in a parking lot next to
Risley Hall on the Cornell campus one morning during spring break, probably
March 24. (Risley is just north of the Thurston Ave. bridge