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What's outside of your picture window today?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Nov 9 8:02am | Replies (2396)Comment receiving replies
A pileated woodpecker was outside our windows the other morning. They’re so elusive I was happy to get these pictures! Taken through a window so they’re a little grainy but pretty cool anyway!
For those not familiar they’re large birds about the size of a crow. Fun to listen to them chipping away. Unlike other woodpeckers who do a ratatattat with their beaks. These guys sound like an excavating crew using an axe and pick.
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WOW! What great photos of a great bird.....I've never seen a pileated woodpecker in person. My woodpecker friends, I have a couple of regulars not on my feeders since adding a peanut ball suet in a wire cylinder feeder and a woodpecker seed cake in a wire feeder....they love both and also like the plexiglass feeder on my window with lots of sunflower seeds and nuts/fruits.
I seem to have found a good menu and serving containers for them this year. It took dedicated work to find the right set-up, tho. I had trouble finding cakes and feeders sized to fit each other, so have quite the backlog in the kitchen.
Haven't seen the RedBreasted Grosbeak since so couldn't get a photo. Sad. I do have the woodpeckers daily now, and several other new birds are coming around. Poor squirrels. I've put a damper on their feasting....goody. they can still eat at a couple of feeders, but I have them limited and under control better now. In fact, I do want to feed them, too, just they are tremendous hogs and pig out all day if they can. Well, now they can't!
Success on the feeders....blessings, Lori. elizabeth