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Originally Posted by Airedale1
The Pileated is a very skittish bird and I was lucky to even get as close as I did.
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My family calls them "The-Peek-a-Boo" bird: they have a way of keeping you in sight—while keeping the trunk of a tree between themselves and your view of them.
Unless recent sightings of larger woodpeckers
are proven, the Pileated is North America's largest woodpecker.
I had my own "close encounter" with a Pileated in my back yard. He'd landed on a large rotten branch that was suspended from falling by a vine. His added weight caused the branch to sink slowly to the ground. If birds could get a red face,
that bird would have one!
Long before you see a Pileated, you can hear them. Their call is similar—but much louder—than the Flicker's "wicka-wicka".
BTW, Flickers are everywhere in Wolfeboro right now. Flickers are
my "nemesis-bird", as I can't even get close in my car!
