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Oct 22, 2012 12:18:22   #
littlebug Loc: woburn ma
 
richardh76 wrote:
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to bring my camera. Man, I was lucky!! Went out to get the paper, it was early and very cloudy. As I walked by this dead damp stump I heard muffled banging and there, practically beside me, was this male Pileated Woodpecker. I got the paper hurried into the house, got my camera and my 70-300. He had left that stump and instead had gone to another. Thought I had lost him till he showed himself banging on another stump.
These chances don't come everyday around here.
Enjoy!
Richard
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good photos

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Oct 22, 2012 12:24:27   #
richardh76 Loc: VT, Central, Champlain Valley
 
CAM1017 wrote:
richardh76 wrote:
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to bring my camera. Man, I was lucky!! Went out to get the paper, it was early and very cloudy. As I walked by this dead damp stump I heard muffled banging and there, practically beside me, was this male Pileated Woodpecker. I got the paper hurried into the house, got my camera and my 70-300. He had left that stump and instead had gone to another. Thought I had lost him till he showed himself banging on another stump.
These chances don't come everyday around here.
Enjoy!
Richard
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to ... (show quote)


Totally cool! I have only seen a couple in 50 years. Still remember my first sighting. It really got me hooked on birding. :thumbup:
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Many thanks Cam 1017, glad you liked them. I've been hooked on birding since the late 1940's!! :roll: Oh, oh just gave away how old I am, oh well! :lol:

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Oct 22, 2012 12:35:30   #
richardh76 Loc: VT, Central, Champlain Valley
 
pianist38 wrote:
Beautiful pictures! I have never seen one of these birds. but I did see a red-bellied woodpecker last week for the first time. Can't equal the pileated for sheer dramatic appearance, though. :)


Many thanks Sarah, glad you enjoyed the pictures! Red-bellied Woodpeckers are fun, glad you got a chance to see one! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Richard

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Oct 22, 2012 12:36:43   #
richardh76 Loc: VT, Central, Champlain Valley
 
littlebug wrote:
richardh76 wrote:
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to bring my camera. Man, I was lucky!! Went out to get the paper, it was early and very cloudy. As I walked by this dead damp stump I heard muffled banging and there, practically beside me, was this male Pileated Woodpecker. I got the paper hurried into the house, got my camera and my 70-300. He had left that stump and instead had gone to another. Thought I had lost him till he showed himself banging on another stump.
These chances don't come everyday around here.
Enjoy!
Richard
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to ... (show quote)
good photos
quote=richardh76 This will teach me when I go out... (show quote)


Many thanks littlebug, much appreciated.
Richard

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Oct 22, 2012 12:42:44   #
OneOwl
 
richardh76 wrote:
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to bring my camera. Man, I was lucky!! Went out to get the paper, it was early and very cloudy. As I walked by this dead damp stump I heard muffled banging and there, practically beside me, was this male Pileated Woodpecker. I got the paper hurried into the house, got my camera and my 70-300. He had left that stump and instead had gone to another. Thought I had lost him till he showed himself banging on another stump.
These chances don't come everyday around here.
Enjoy!
Richard
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to ... (show quote)


Just beautiful. I live and work in the big woods and you being able to come back and have this skitish bird there is not normal. I see them in pairs more over the last 15 years and love the jungle bird sound when they call each other. Imagine what the now extinct Ivory Billed Wood Pecker looked like at 22" long when this guy is the size of a crow @ 17". Nice Job. OneOlwl

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Oct 22, 2012 12:49:32   #
MTG44 Loc: Corryton, Tennessee
 
Great shots.

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Oct 22, 2012 12:54:03   #
cwnlsl Loc: Lake SAint Louis,MO
 
Wow! Lucky you and beautiful shots!

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Oct 22, 2012 13:14:53   #
Stevieboy Loc: West Palm Beach, Florida
 
Very nice Richard.........Well done...bet you were excited....I would have been .

Steve

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Oct 22, 2012 13:17:45   #
richardh76 Loc: VT, Central, Champlain Valley
 
OneOwl wrote:
richardh76 wrote:
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to bring my camera. Man, I was lucky!! Went out to get the paper, it was early and very cloudy. As I walked by this dead damp stump I heard muffled banging and there, practically beside me, was this male Pileated Woodpecker. I got the paper hurried into the house, got my camera and my 70-300. He had left that stump and instead had gone to another. Thought I had lost him till he showed himself banging on another stump.
These chances don't come everyday around here.
Enjoy!
Richard
This will teach me when I go outside in the AM to ... (show quote)


Just beautiful. I live and work in the big woods and you being able to come back and have this skitish bird there is not normal. I see them in pairs more over the last 15 years and love the jungle bird sound when they call each other. Imagine what the now extinct Ivory Billed Wood Pecker looked like at 22" long when this guy is the size of a crow @ 17". Nice Job. OneOlwl
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Many thanks for looking and the comment OneOwl, but living at the end of a dead end street, and it was a quiet morning, fog was just beginning to lift, but cloudy, it was very peaceful - just the kind of morning one might be able to see a Pileated. However, I didn't have clue when I walked out of the house, and fortunately or unfortunately that is when interesting things happen. One would think I'd be ready with that kind of experience!! :lol: Most of the time, I'm not!, Oh well!
Richard

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Oct 22, 2012 13:18:42   #
richardh76 Loc: VT, Central, Champlain Valley
 
MTG44 wrote:
Great shots.


Many thanks MTG44, much appreciated!
Richard

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Oct 22, 2012 13:19:47   #
richardh76 Loc: VT, Central, Champlain Valley
 
cwnlsl wrote:
Wow! Lucky you and beautiful shots!


Thanks, I really felt lucky after shooting those shots, much appreciated.
Richard

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Oct 22, 2012 13:22:46   #
richardh76 Loc: VT, Central, Champlain Valley
 
Stevieboy wrote:
Very nice Richard.........Well done...bet you were excited....I would have been .

Steve


Hi Steve, Thanks, you bet I was excited, I kept firing away until he was finished grubbing in the Pine Tree and flew away. I would love to catch one flying, that would really be neat!
Richard

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Oct 22, 2012 13:34:46   #
OneOwl
 
You succeeded in the end and did a wonderful job. I love your photos. Once in a while in logging we see these on an old stump right on the ground. We hate to see them on timber we want to harvest as they are telling us, this one is full of ants. We leave plenty of old dead and dying timber to keep woodpeckers happy. I know someone thinks there may be live Ivory Billed Woodpeckers in Lousiana but no photos of a live one in 60 years..? Unfortunately when the Museum of Natural History needed samples to stuff they sent a local out to shoot a pair for about the same money he would earn in 3 months of his normal work. I will try to attach a photo here. OneOwl

painting ivory billed
painting ivory billed...

albino pileated
albino pileated...

ivory billed painting
ivory billed painting...

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Oct 22, 2012 13:42:51   #
Robbie7 Loc: Northampton. England
 
Lovely shots thanks for sharing..

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Oct 22, 2012 13:52:10   #
richardh76 Loc: VT, Central, Champlain Valley
 
OneOwl wrote:
You succeeded in the end and did a wonderful job. I love your photos. Once in a while in logging we see these on an old stump right on the ground. We hate to see them on timber we want to harvest as they are telling us, this one is full of ants. We leave plenty of old dead and dying timber to keep woodpeckers happy. I know someone thinks there may be live Ivory Billed Woodpeckers in Lousiana but no photos of a live one in 60 years..? Unfortunately when the Museum of Natural History needed samples to stuff they sent a local out to shoot a pair for about the same money he would earn in 3 months of his normal work. I will try to attach a photo here. OneOwl
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Ah yes OneOwl! Nice picture! Love Audubon prints!!
I went to Lousiana on a trek with 4 others looking for possible Ivory billed habitat a few years ago. Saw Pileated and other Woodpeckers, but didn't come close to even imagining an Ivory-billed. If I had been born a tad earlier, I might have had a chance, but than again I would have seen several other extinct species. Oh well, that subject of human population vs wildlife is another topic, I used to get worked up over it, but I'm too old and very thankful for what I have seen and been allowed to take pictures of to loose sleep at this stage.
Thanks for sharing!
Richard

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