Birdwatching anyone?
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!)
June 15th, 2007 18:46
Yep…that’s a pileated woodpecker. The other ones around here are smaller, smaller than a robin. I know we have flickers (yellow-shafted, probably), and it is either the Hairy or the Downy woodpecker that is the size of a starling….the latter is the one that is black and white body with red cap. The pileated is the “Woody the Woodpecker” one…remember that laugh? That’s the one….
And I know spring is here in my neighborhood when the assorted woodpeckers are back and drumming away in search of bugs….