[sweetliberty]

Interested? I reported a possible sighting of one. In fact, there have been several reports of sightings in the White River area, and "Good Lord" is a pretty accurate description of my reaction the first itme I saw it. This thing was the size of a good sized chicken. It could have just been a Pileated Woodpecker. I don't have any binoculars, so I never actually got a good look at the beak. One day it was in a tree out in the front yard for a long time. On 2 other occasions, I saw it on the ground across the narrow dirt road in front of the house. It stayed for a long time, hammering away at an old stump. I haven't seen it in several weeks.

[TheLion]

Must have been a noisy guy. The size of a chicken?....wow!

[BluH2o]

Pileated and the ivory billed woodpecker are similar in appearance ... the ivory billed is much more dramatic in color. Next to each other it would be easy to differentiate the species ... however, to the untrained eye the pileated can easily be mistaken for the ivory billed. Thus several responses to the initial post in this thread that state they have observed the ivory billed woodpecker.

[Budge]

"Good Lord!"

Sounds like you need some decent binoculars!