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| Landed on tree Saturday, 6/16, 11AM |
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| This small Pileated didn't "hammer" for food |
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| It spent most of it's 3 minute visit "dancing" in the Doug fir, gleaning the small branches for bugs? |
The woodpecker has landed! Saturday, June 16, 2012, 11 am - in my back-yard!
Pileated Woodpeckers (PW) aren't common in Redmond, the Eastside or even Puget Sound. But, one dropped in at 0-eleven hundred hours last Saturday for a brief forage onto my backyard wild cherry tree. Front row seats from my second story office window, what more can one ask?
It spent most of it's time bouncing and picking away at the small branches of the Doug fir sapling. Too bad the cherries aren't ripe yet. Maybe this small PW is just learning?
According to Wikepedia, adult PW's are about the size of a small crow. Do you want to learn more about the Pileated? Read more >>
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker/lifehistory (description / sound / video)
http://www.pileatedwoodpeckercentral.com/information.htm - thorough, understandable, overall description, with excellent pictures.
http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/gtr-181/023_AubryRaley.pdf US Forest Management Review of Keystone Habitat Modifier,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileated_Woodpecker - so so review..
Photos and story by Bob Yoder
Education Hill backyard near Redmond Junior High, Horace Mann, and Hartman Park Trails.
It spent most of it's time bouncing and picking away at the small branches of the Doug fir sapling. Too bad the cherries aren't ripe yet. Maybe this small PW is just learning?
According to Wikepedia, adult PW's are about the size of a small crow. Do you want to learn more about the Pileated? Read more >>
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker/lifehistory (description / sound / video)
http://www.pileatedwoodpeckercentral.com/information.htm - thorough, understandable, overall description, with excellent pictures.
http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/gtr-181/023_AubryRaley.pdf US Forest Management Review of Keystone Habitat Modifier,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileated_Woodpecker - so so review..
Photos and story by Bob Yoder
Education Hill backyard near Redmond Junior High, Horace Mann, and Hartman Park Trails.
Not sure if it's the same one, but I've had a Pileated land on the telephone pole in front of my place at least twice before down on 88th St. So great to see them around!
ReplyDeleteNice photos, Bob. I saw one on my condo property near NE 90th St & Red-Wood Rd earlier this year.
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