Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on March 18, 2015, 07:28:00 pm
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We have a shelf outside one of our windows where we put out some food for the birds, usually suet for Woodpeckers. This guy has been coming daily all Winter
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Marc-St-Louis/MSC/Pileated.jpg)
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A pileated woodpecker. Cool! We have a good population of them here. They let you know when they are in the neighborhood.
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So close to the house. Awesome. I get them also, but never near the house. Have to follow the jack hammer sound thru the tree tops to see them.
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They were extremely rare 30 years ago, much more common now. I've seen this guy hang around with his mate taking turns on the suet ball. He has a peculiar habit while he is feeding of eyeballing the window, quite comical. I'm sure it's because he can see his reflection in the window.
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Saw my 1st pileated wp last winter. Heard him long before seeing him. What a big hunk of bird! He too was regular customer at the suet cake hanger in middle of yard.
Didn't show this past winter. :( But there were lots of his smaller cousins.
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Now I can put a name to the face. A pair has made a nest in my wife's grandparents apple tree. This is right next to their patio, about 7 feet high.
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Stupid question. Was that hole there or did they peck it?
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They pecked it.
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Wow, thats a bunch of work. Bet they wouldnt try that on osage!
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They don't care what they hit or how hard. They like it. You better hope he does not take a peck at that woodpecker in the window. I love all woodpeckers but the pileated is something special.
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How many of you know that the Pileated was the subject for the Woody Woodpecker cartoons?
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We have them all over up here. I see them weekly behind the house when Im outdoors more. I love those sledge hammers!
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yep we have a bunch here also, I use a call that simulates them to shock gobble turkey mid morning during Turkey season. :) Love to watch and listen to them. :) Nice picture Marc.
Pappy
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Interesting story about pileated woodpeckers...in The Witchery Of Archery, Maurice Thompson said they hunted only the Ivory Bill woodpeckers because the pileated woodpeckerswere so scarce. These days, it just the opposite.
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I saw my first pileated about 20 years ago while bow hunting, had to look in the bird book as soon as I got home to find out just what it was. Since then I have noticed more and more of them each year while I sit
in my stand each fall, they seem to be doing quite well here too.
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Now I could get into a reality show about the folks looking for the Ivory Bill. I could get into that a lot more than looking for Bigfoot. It would be great to have a thriving population in Congeree Swamp near Columbia SC.
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Cool picture and awesome bird. We have a lot in my area and enjoy seeing or hearing them throughout the year. I learned in an ornithology class that woody woodpecker was taken from the ivory billed which is similar.? With technology being so mobile and small, I'm waiting to,see some footage that shows the ivory Bill still exists. Thanks for the picture Marc !
Tracy
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Cool picture and awesome bird. We have a lot in my area and enjoy seeing or hearing them throughout the year. I learned in an ornithology class that woody woodpecker was taken from the ivory billed which is similar.? With technology being so mobile and small, I'm waiting to,see some footage that shows the ivory Bill still exists. Thanks for the picture Marc !
Tracy
My wife who took film in university was told it was the Pileated
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I see them frequently even this far south.
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The Pileated is a little smaller that the Ivory -billed woodpecker. The last documented Ivory-billed was seen in Louisiana in the 1950's. Someone thought they seen one in Arkansas about 12 years ago, and a big effort was made to find them, but all they ever found were pileated woodpeckers.
[Now I could get into a reality show about the folks looking for the Ivory Bill. I could get into that a lot more than looking for Bigfoot. It would be great to have a thriving population in Congeree Swamp near Columbia SC.]
Chief RID, I knew several ornithologists that went down to Arkansas looking for the bird. They would put on Ghilie suits and stand out in the swamp from dawn to dusk watching and listening for the Ivory-billed. They said it actually got kinda boring just standing next to a tree all day in camo. These ornithologists are apparently not bowhunters!
Neal
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I actually had the pleasure of two pair of the Pileated Woodpeckers come in on me while deer hunting here in SC this October, very very noisy with all the pecking and scuffling up and around the Pines and Oaks ...They were in trouble here after Hurricane Hugo back in 1989 after losing some habitat but have made a good comeback...My niece Emma painted her uncle Don a great picture of one which hangs in my living room...She is talented for an 11yr old!
Don