Sunday, May 10, 2009

50. Pileated Woodpecker - February 2009





















These guys are really big birds. I saw my first one at the park on Camosun and 16th. We had been for a one hour walk in the Endowment Lands and I hadn't seen a single bird. Then, standing in the park I saw this beauty. He was rapping away at a log. I was struck by the luminance of the red of his crest. It's very distinctive. And he was really banging away... no wonder this one in the picture looks so surprised - or is it glazed - by life

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