Thursday, October 28, 2010

Pileated Woodpecker





After Breakfast, and before too!...checked the Dogwoods in the Backyard....Robins, hidden, Flickers, flew off, and Pileated Woodpecker, climbing high up a Ponderosa behind the Dogwoods...friend reported seeing Pileated in the Dogwoods..."calling, loud, while eating the berries"....try again tomorrow, hopefully Robins, Flickers, Pileated, DownyAndHairy Woodpeckers too!, will be in the Dogwoods...and the Leaves will have changed!...looking close at the Dogwoods, one can see new Bracts trying to be Flowers...Plants do that I guess...a false Spring sprouting in Fall, like the Azaleas do sometime...hazy clouds, clearer a bit in late afternoon, cool-wore two layers...at Lunch: paddled back to the Woods...thought I saw Pileated fly to a perch atop a Pine...but couldn't locate...found a Log to sit and wait, and Deer, all Does it seemed, came bounding through the Woods...something Deer do this time of Season!...Deer were chasing one another all over....and heard one hoo hooo..picked up, and looked at all the Usual Trees...quiet...and time...oh...made the Inside Loop in the morning walk...quiet...and napped until work time...Christmas Bird Count pamphlet came with brief reports, lists of unusual sightings mostly, from all over at last December's count...notable about California was the lack of enthusiasm, which I sorta noted my own self!...but a nice pamphlet, and reminder to take part this December...most mornings I see Doe and One Fawn, or Doe and Two Fawns by the Cabin, and often over in the Village, or by the Deer House...have pics...but haven't posted each sighting...kinda like Blue Jays, but today, lots and lots of Blue Jays in the Woods...heard soft Hawk call, and wondered if it was the One Blue Jay that can call like Hawk!

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