I had changed to go to the gym and was just about to sit down to a late breakfast when I noticed them -- not one, but two pileated woodpeckers on the pin oak on our yard.
I grabbed my camera (I really need a zoom lens) and stealthily ran outside in my shorts. Of course as soon as I approached they flew, but I was still able to get a couple of shots deeper into the woods.
I apologize for these -- you'll have to look closely. He's to the left of the big trunk.
This one is up in the tree...
...and then I realized how cold it was!
5 comments:
Do you have a suet feeder? We get Pileated Woodpeckers at our suet feeder on a fairly regular basis. These are some good first pictures, but I hope you get that zoom lens.
To catch a bird at all is good!! Fun to have the camera at hand to capture these moments isn't it?
I must ask the obvious (to me, anyhow) question: is a pileated woodpecker one that suffers from avian hemorrhoids?
Couldn't see him in the first photo but did in the second two. We had two pileateds sit on the railing of our back deck when we lived in King's Contrivance... Awesome birds, but of course they were gone by the time I found my camera. They generally travel in pairs.
Those big guys can turn a tree trunk into a dugout canoe in a short time
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