Friday, November 26, 2010

Bird Watching: Pileated woodpecker in Fenelon Falls, Ontario

I heard the large, noisy bird before I saw it.


Its loud, brash call alerted me to the fact that a jay - or something - might be outside the window at my son’s house in Fenelon Falls.

[Link to Wildwood Tracking.com to see "the characteristic rectangular shape of Pileated Woodpecker holes."]


["Hiding from the wind - and me - in the cedars": photos GH]

Fortunately, though it was a very windy day, the pileated woodpecker stayed long enough for me to fetch my camera and step out onto a nearby balcony.

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Have you made any recent sightings of birds this size?

Click here please to read an earlier Bird Watching post.

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