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Birders

Rhiannon12866

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

Reply to Donkees (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 04:32 AM

Apr 2024

And the one that I saw as a kid was close by on the lot next door which we kids referred to as "the pit." It was a lot with no house at the time where the basement had already been dug. They were building new houses in the neighborhood at that time and when they chopped down trees to make room to build the house, they ended up in "the pit." We kids liked to play there.

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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