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Photo © lindsay satchell all rights reserved
Hendersonville, NC (Google, OSM)
35.3700111168, -82.5120435173
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Description

A family of pileated woodpeckers dine at the suet feeder every day. This guy is a juvenile.

Jul. 03, 2012 09:46:20 -0400
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Posted by lindsaysatchell 11 months ago (Flag)
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Pileated Woodpecker - Photo (c) Scott Young, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
muir's ID: Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)
Posted by muir 11 months ago (Flag)
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interesting to see Pileated at a feeder. I'm more often see a Downy or a Hairy , but not a Pileated.

Posted by everett 11 months ago (Flag)
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Every year my parents have pileated come to the feeder and this year we watched the parents teach the 2 young ones to eat it it, too!

Posted by lindsaysatchell 11 months ago (Flag)
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Looks like they'll be feeder birds :) Hey, you're in a cool area. I was in Montreat last summer for a wedding. The dry oak forests there at 2,500 feet there are similar to out dry oak forests at 500 feet elevation and we could see Mount Mitchell off to the north with the hardwood forests extending up to 5000 feet. Here in Vermont above 3000 tends to be spruce-fir.

Posted by everett 11 months ago (Flag)
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Identification Summary

Pileated Woodpecker - Photo (c) Scott Young, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
muir's ID: Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)

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