Bret Loc: Dayton Ohio

Yesterday I was lucky to get a few shots of a single bird. Today was even better luck.

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imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Ah yes, the Male AND Female - could be nesting soon ! Great work !

Bill_de Loc: US

Time to buy a lottery ticket. I wondered how you were going to top yesterday. Sweet!

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gwr Loc: South Dartmouth, Ma.

cool shot Bret. gary

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

:thumbup: :thumbup:

DOOK Loc: Maclean, Australia

Excellent, Bret. It has to be downloaded to really appreciate. :thumbup: :thumbup:

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Wow!! And I've never seen a single one in person :)

jmw44 Loc: Princeton, NJ USA

I'm so impressed. Bravo!!!

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Wow Bret!!!!! Very very awesome!!!!! Do you live in the woods?:)

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

Wow, two at once! Very impressive. I see them fairly often but have had very little luck getting close enough for a decent shot.

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

We have quite a few pileated woodpeckers where I live, we hear them "drumming" almost daily, but I'm lucky if I actually see one once a month!

For as big as they are, pileated woodpeckers have an uncanny ability for avoiding humans. Sometimes when I have a bunch of feeders in my back yard filled up with sunflower seeds, peanut butter, niger and shelled corn, it's common to have red-head wood peckers, downy wood peckers, red-belly wood peckers, and hairy wood peckers all enjoying the "hand-outs" at the same time, and on one or two rare occasions I've seen a pileated stop by, perch for maybe a minute in the very top of a big beech tree, check out all the other birds, then fly off to the woods across the road. Not once have I ever seen a pileated ever come near one of our feeders; pileated wood peckers go almost exclusively for large grubs and large insects, and they'll literally tear a dead or rotten tree to pieces to find the big juicy grubs that they like.

I have probably walked 100 miles in the woods nearby in the spring, over the last few years, hoping to find a pair of pileated wood peckers nesting; so far I've found quite a few red-heads nesting, (my 2nd favorite wood pecker), we have an eagle nest not too far away that the same pair of bald eagles nest in ever year for 15 years now, but to date, I have yet to find pileated wood peckers nesting.

Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia

Great capture, Bret, and not an easy feat!

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Another great capture Bret!

Jana-TAS Loc: Washington

Good for you! Now with Spring coming Bret, if you want to feed them well and not have the darn Starlings take advantage of the suet if you don't already have a Sandwich log or two I suggest you get 1 or 2 of them and hang on a tree or tall snag for them to feed from. Then you won't be wasting on the Starlings. If you have a local Wild Birds Unlimited they might possibly have them there to save you on shipping if not you can order from duncraft.com or directly from the manufacturer birdschoice.com Hope they continue to visit you.

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Excellent download Bret. :thumbup: :D