tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post7039618242488588127..comments2024-03-28T18:34:03.426-04:00Comments on Working Pictures: Dinosaur...er...make that...Pileated Woodpecker Attack!Carl Weesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-12452991928661353842017-04-08T06:26:44.672-04:002017-04-08T06:26:44.672-04:00They're pretty unusual around here. We had one...They're pretty unusual around here. We had one for a few days in the woods behind my parents' house in New Jersey when I was a kid. A few years ago there was one seriously excavating a tree next to the post office here in town. In all the time I've spent in various forest parks here in southern New England I don't remember ever hearing their distinctive call.Carl Weesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-29721058460197610942017-04-08T03:07:26.444-04:002017-04-08T03:07:26.444-04:00German trees are safe ;-)
Will there be a follow-...German trees are safe ;-)<br /><br />Will there be a follow-up?<br /><br />It's exotic to me, this bird.Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771625000856319335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-7970033258193529122017-04-07T06:28:13.207-04:002017-04-07T06:28:13.207-04:00One of the pair kept flying off and coming back, m...One of the pair kept flying off and coming back, making that eerie call each time.Carl Weesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-55207823862396646522017-04-06T21:15:44.326-04:002017-04-06T21:15:44.326-04:00Love those birds. Have you heard their call? Think...Love those birds. Have you heard their call? Think, Woody Woodpecker.<br /><br />When we moved in 17 years ago (SE PA), we had some magnificent American elm trees that somehow had escaped the blight. Then, after a summer dry spell, followed by a no-snow winter, blight got to them and the trees began to die off. We had the ones closer to the house cut down, for safety, but left others in the woodlot stand, for the woodpeckers, of which we have several garden variety species. Then the pileated came in, drilling for the really big juicy grubs.MikeRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15230112561510206950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-10969026499991212722017-04-06T18:27:39.772-04:002017-04-06T18:27:39.772-04:00That is really cool :)
We don't see the Pilea...That is really cool :)<br /><br />We don't see the Pileated around here often, but it is a magnificent bird.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11258160951079392765noreply@blogger.com