Tag: pileated woodpecker
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Walking the Woods
Parting is such sweet sorrow. ~William Shakespeare Yesterday morning we took what may be our final stroll through our property. Our home is on a little over 14 acres of rolling landscape with big hardwoods, mostly white oak and tulip poplar with some northern red oak and various hickories making up the largest trees. As Read more…
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Chip Away
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within. ~Vance Havner Melissa spotted a pair of pileated woodpeckers out front the other day and we grabbed the scope to take a closer look. They were both pounding on a couple of hickory stumps that we had Read more…
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Wood-hen in the hood
The bird already possessed a common name; and it is a pity that Latham did not know it. In its native land it was, and still is, commonly called, the log-cock…and because of its cackling cry, “wood-hen,” “laughing woodpecker,”… ~in Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds, Arthur Cleveland Bent, 1939 My father called them Read more…
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Persistent Pileated
He seldom gave more than three or four pecks at a time, and would then swing his head round to one side or the other, sometimes raising his scarlet crest. ~O. M. Bryens, on watching a pileated woodpecker feeding Spent a few days at my folk’s place in Damascus this week, enjoying the beautiful mountain Read more…
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