Did You Get This Pose??

This "Lady" Pileated Woodpecker

just keeps coming back

to get her picture taken!

 

 

or maybe

it's for the food?

 

I should have enough pictures of her

to last a lifetime...but it's so much fun!



You....Looking at Me, Again!

I don't have time for you....

 

 

I'm Working Today!!



The New Woodpecker in the Neighborhood

There are lots of woodpeckers who visit us regularly--

The Red Bellied



The Hairy (such a sweet bird),

and his almost look alike, the Downy,

and, of course, the Pilated, who you can always find (or hear) early each morning hammering away in his favorite tree.

But this summer we were visited by the Red Headed Woodpecker.




He only stuck around for a couple of days.

I guess he was on his way to someplace else!

The Pilated is Back

Last year in early January for the very first time I saw the Pileated Woodpecker. He was so amazing. It seemed to me that he looked a lot like the cartoon charactor of my youth, Woody Woodpecker. He had a favorite tree, and everytime I heard his "jackhammer" sound, I knew exactly where to look for him. He eventually became so brave as to check out the suet feeder on my deck.

What beauty God has given him!

As summer progressed, I heard the hammering sound coming from two directions at the same time and assumed he had a friend close by. Sometime last fall he disappeared, until finally yesterday, I heard his familier pecking sound but not from his usual tree. Then today I finally saw him on a tree a little further away--but he's back!