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Pileated Woodpecker - (Dryocopus pileatus)
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| 03 March 2013 |
"Uncommon and local; a wary bird of extensive deciduous or mixed forests", A Guide to Field Identification BIRDS of North America.
I feel that the 'wary' is still quite descriptive but with the burgeoning housing developments on the eastern seaboard of United States I personally believe that the Pileated is adapting to living in smaller forests and around houses that have surrounding woodlands of four to five acres and more.
The Pileated is often observed in our woods and around the house but this wary bird is hard to photograph. These photos were taken just now through the window in our living room. I was hoping to get clearer more defined pictures by going outside very carefully. But he, very carefully, flew away giving that raucous startled chicken squawk that identifies him even when he isn't seen.
The One That Didn't Get Away (update)
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| About 1975
My father-in-law, ' Dick' Bullock, in
charge of food services for Air Canada flights out of London, had
flown in from Heathrow in London to visit with us in Cape Breton for
a week or so. On his last day with us he was able to buy a so-called
sea salmon that had been caught off shore in the Atlantic by fishing
boats making hauls for other fish. I talked him in to going up to
the large pond behind the house and posing with fishing equipment as
if he had caught this lovely fish there. When he flew back, on Air
Canada, he had the food crew put his fish on ice for the trip home to
England. The crew all knew him well and he made a production of
showing them these photos of how he had caught the salmon in the wild. It
went over well and he kept up the charade until he also showed the
London terminal crew the photos. I think he had to buy them all a
round after he broke the joke to them.
The young boy in the bottom scene is my older son Shawn
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