[JLO]

Wow, blam, I've never heard that before. All my bird books say they stick around here up north. But, then again, all my bird books are for the local northern states. Pileated woodpeckers (in the books, that I have, anyway) don't travel south.)

Hey, maybe this is big news for the real, true bird afficiadios, eh? JLO

[blam]

This is part of a report from a canoe trip in Jasper, Texas. (I couldn't find anything from around here)

"I found a small creek and followed it a ways. Earlier I'd seen several blue herons, American egrets, anhinga and turkey vultures. Paddling up the creek I watched dozens of tiny song birds flitting about. A red headed pilated woodpecker (one of those guys with the Woody Woodpecker top knot) was pecking away at a log projecting up out of the water.