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Birders

Rhiannon12866

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3. I have seen exactly two in my life, once when I was a little kid and my visiting grandmother called us outside to see it

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 04:15 AM

Apr 2024

I have never forgotten and spotted a second one last year hanging around the stump of one of my mother's favorite trees which was recently chopped down by mistake. I only saw him that one time, though I always look.

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Pileated Woodpecker [View all] Donkees Apr 2024 OP

i can't seem to paste it, rampartc Apr 2024 #1

Besides the elusive Ivory-billed, there are other pale-billed woodpeckers such as in Belize ... Donkees Apr 2024 #2

I have seen exactly two in my life, once when I was a little kid and my visiting grandmother called us outside to see it Rhiannon12866 Apr 2024 #3

I see them scavenging and 'working' on old trees :) Donkees Apr 2024 #4

Yup, that's what the one I saw recently was doing at the stump of my mother's tree Rhiannon12866 Apr 2024 #5

This time of year I hear their calls, and have even had one feasting on the peanut feeder Donkees Apr 2024 #6

What do they like besides insects, peanuts? And the two I saw must have found insects in the recently downed trees Rhiannon12866 Apr 2024 #7

Suet, either the commercial blocks or fresh suet hunks from the meat counter Donkees Apr 2024 #8

Thanks so much! There are other trees close by and my mother had a bird feeder that my brother hasn't been tending Rhiannon12866 Apr 2024 #9

We have some near the house, but every time we see them it's still a treat. dem4decades Apr 2024 #10

ha ha ha ha ho thats the woody wood pecker song. AllaN01Bear Apr 2024 #11