Rarely seen as a pair

[Fox Mike]

Caught these two playing on the maple tree. I see one every once in a while but this is the first time I have seen a pair.

 

[HAWKEYE#28]

Have these and they are wonderful!

 

[contender]

Actually,, in the woods,, while hunting,, I see pairs often. Not always on the same trees,,, but traveling together, as they make their way to the different trees for food. Good catch on the picture! That's a hard one to get like that because they do move around a lot.

 

[HAWKEYE#28]

The red by the bill on the 'pecker on the left is a male..dunno abt the one on the right. Female does not have the red there. 8)

 

[Fox Mike]

The red by the bill on the 'pecker on the left is a male..dunno abt the one on the right. Female does not have the red there. 8)

Here is another view of them. The lady is on the right.

 

[coach]

Ever since I got rid of the rotted stumps in my yard I haven't seen the pilliated woodpeckers much. Can't say I ever saw two at once. Interesting birds.

 

[RSIno1]

Here in SoCal the most exotic bird is the Parrot. We have a few that visit every couple weeks or so. They are noisy.
https://pethelpful.com/wildlife/Wild-Parrots-Multiplying-in-Southern-California

 

[Fox Mike]

Ever since I got rid of the rotted stumps in my yard I haven't seen the pilliated woodpeckers much. Can't say I ever saw two at once. Interesting birds.

Here is a photo of one with a grub in it's beak, from the decayed stump of a dead Maple tree. Very interesting to watch. They are constant motion.

 

[WendyZXZ]

Those are some great bird pictures!

 

[BDM1]

Those are great pics, i'm going to use the second one for my computer background if that is ok, thanks much for posting those!

 

[rman]

Neat pictures! We don't have pilated woodpeckers in my neck of the woods. We have red bellied, red headed, downy, hairy and flicker varieties in these parts. They are all smaller than yours.

 

[GRAMPS 51]

Hi I was visiting my neighbor who is 90 years old and house bound and as we were looking out his front window there were 3 in the dying maples we got too watch for about 5 minutes he and I both being hunters agreed that neither of us had ever seen more than two at one time what a great picture

Gramps

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Beautiful birds. I'd never seen one when I moved from ID to VT in the mid 1980s and was kinda astounded at how BIG they were. And the machinegun like racket they can make on a hollow dead tree. And the big piles of chips they leave at the base of that tree! Great pix!

Biggest relative we have here are Flickers, who annoy my neighbors by getting on their aluminum siding and searching for aluminum grubs. Maybe they're just sharpening their beaks....

 

[mike campbell]

They're year-round residents at our house . This is a common sight out the dining room window...

Only time I've seen more than one at a time was when mom was showing two fledglings around the back yard. I love their call ... reminds me of a Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movie.

I tell my grandkids than "pileated" is an Iroquois Indian word....means " really big "

 

[choirboy]

Telling Mr. Squirrel to back off!

 

[WendyZXZ]

Those are all great pictures and beautiful birds!