Photo of the Week: Pileated Woodpecker

Large black woodpecker with red-crested white-striped head and heavy gray bill perches on side of brown-barked tree with long claw feet.

It’s not often I’m able to see a Pileated woodpecker close up.

They’re usually flying away from me, as I view white patches on their underwings and typical woodpecker undulating flight.

Or I hear their loud drilling in the tree tops as I peer through shadowed leaves for a glimpse of the almost crow-sized black red-crested bird with white stripes on its head.

This weekend I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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