Pileated Woodpecker
 

In my backyard. Gone before I could get the camera together:smash:

Very, very rare! Monster pecker....

I had the pleasure of watching one work 30yrs ago in Idaho, did get a couple pictures of it. I heard him from over a mile away.

Yes, that's a big pecker.

-spence

I always wonder what kind of peckers are making the racket. In the spring i hear some monster wood peckers in the woods and will notice trees that are demolished. I will hear them on my property at times and can never find the culprits. Id love to see a Pileated and take some pics.

you sure? them things are mighty rare down here. Mighty beeeg pecker and weird looking, see them in the woods in Maine feeeshing.

I was less than 30 feet away at my computer. Googled it. Never saw one in life before....
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Weird weird weird

we see them in Norwich,VT and Sunapee NH working on old dying pine trees... They make a lot of noise when they are after bugs

freekin scary lookin, waitin for the monster mosquito's to fly down and and dart my neck next

I saw one pileated in my life. It was just outside my office window in Hopkinton about 3 or 4 years ago. Giant beautiful bird.

They're closely related to the Ivory Billed which hadn't been seen since about 1945 and thought to be extinct until some Cornell ornithologists claim to have seen and recorded one in the swamps of Arkansas just a few years ago.

I'd say it was
The size of a very large crow..
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They can really throw WOOD.

Very large crow is actually a small pileated, large raven better sized! Their bill can be 4-5".

Your eyes must have been bugging out staring at a pecker that big.

-spence

In the woods in Maine, all by u's self, I swear'ed it was a mosquito

i hear they scare some women

Very big birds and LOUD , we saw a family of them in Maine, that's who Woody Woodpecker is in the cartoon

We see them fairly often in the spring in CT.

things are monsters. I've seen them in Weymouth and Peterborough NH. The Peterborough one was up close and personal like Sweetwater's

Just googled it. That is a big bird.

As I was walking to my truck to go to work this AM I heard two hammering away. And they sounded close. Gonna work on a photo of them ..or one of them.

you'll need a long distance lens
 

find their drumming tree
and get set up with your tripod

then wait for them ,
you can even make MOCK drumming calls
just google that wood pecker's sounds (mp3)

and then arrange a speaker out the window
to draw them to their special tree.
they drum to define territory
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Yeah Swimmer, i tried for over a year
to see one up close...then as i was leaving the old
place one uncharacteristically flew real close
to my head on his way to the swamp across the street.
i couldn't believe how big it was.