Feb
18
2017
I spotted a piliated woodpecker in our yard pecking away on a tree fifty feet away. I had never seen one in our yard before. I quickly called my wife to view it. She had never seen one before. She grabbed her camera and got several good pictures of it with her zoom. The woodpecker stayed on that tree at least an half hour. Today I kept looking at that tree expecting it to be there but it wasn’t. It is rare to see one. You usually hear their wild cackle. And not them. It is an exotic looking bird about fifteen inches tall and with a long red crown.
