Earlier this year my kid, T2, spotted an owl outside the window. Yesterday another winged friend was making fist-sized chunks of wood fly outside my bedroom window.

I’m told that it’s a pileated woodpecker, the largest of the woodpeckers found in Maine (perhaps anywhere, excepting the supposedly extinct Ivory Woodpecker).

The pic was taken through the screen in my window, so it’s not too clear. You can see the striking red crest and, I think you can tell that it’s one BIG bird. Like a crow–I’d say over a foot long.

This post is another in the series of birthday posts for T2. Everything I’ve posted this week has been about or for him! His completed birthday present pics will go up on Sunday (his birthday!)