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03-26-2011, 07:43 AM
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Pileated Woodpecker
In my backyard. Gone before I could get the camera together  |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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03-26-2011, 07:55 AM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
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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.
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 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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03-26-2011, 08:13 AM
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Location: RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PRBuzz
Very, very rare! Monster pecker...
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Yes, that's a big pecker.
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03-26-2011, 08:43 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
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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.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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03-26-2011, 09:04 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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you sure? them things are mighty rare down here. Mighty beeeg pecker and weird looking, see them in the woods in Maine feeeshing.
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03-26-2011, 09:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
you sure? them things are mighty rare down here. Mighty beeeg pecker and weird looking, see them in the woods in Maine feeeshing.
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I was less than 30 feet away at my computer. Googled it. Never saw one in life before....
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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03-26-2011, 09:25 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Weird weird weird
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03-26-2011, 09:43 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Lexington, MA
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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
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03-26-2011, 09:45 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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freekin scary lookin, waitin for the monster mosquito's to fly down and and dart my neck next
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03-26-2011, 10:27 AM
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Ruled only by the tide
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Truro
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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.
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Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
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03-26-2011, 11:12 AM
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I'd say it was
The size of a very large crow..
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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03-26-2011, 02:51 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
I'd say it was
The size of a very large crow..
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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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". |
Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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03-26-2011, 03:59 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
freekin scary lookin, waitin for the monster mosquito's to fly down and and dart my neck next
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Your eyes must have been bugging out staring at a pecker that big.
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03-26-2011, 04:05 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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In the woods in Maine, all by u's self, I swear'ed it was a mosquito
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03-26-2011, 04:57 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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i hear they scare some women
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03-27-2011, 07:55 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Cranberry Coast Gateway 2 Cape Cod
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Very big birds and LOUD , we saw a family of them in Maine, that's who Woody Woodpecker is in the cartoon
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" Happy as a clam at high tide "
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03-28-2011, 12:19 PM
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Location: Newtown, CT
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We see them fairly often in the spring in CT.
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03-28-2011, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: trying for Truro
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things are monsters. I've seen them in Weymouth and Peterborough NH. The Peterborough one was up close and personal like Sweetwater's
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
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03-28-2011, 03:32 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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Just googled it. That is a big bird.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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03-28-2011, 05:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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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.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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03-28-2011, 05:20 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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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.
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