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To: FamiliarFace

My wife has a couple of great shots of a Pilated Woodpecker from central Missouri. As big as a small dog that bugger is and a regular to the suet feeder as a commuter train. 7:00 11:30 4:00 day after day during the winter.


73 posted on 12/19/2016 8:45:58 PM PST by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: KC Burke

I don’t know if I’ve noticed the actual time of day that the pileateds (both sexes) visit our feeders, but they are here every day in the winter, and truthfully, almost every day all year long, however, not quite as much in the late Summer.

We got a real surprise 2 years ago in the late Spring. We heard such a racket and we knew it was the Pileateds visiting. However, we were very surprised to see 4 of them! We figured Mom and maybe Dad were showing the new babies where the “food lady” lives. They were pretty loud practicing their calls.


75 posted on 12/19/2016 9:17:51 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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