Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker

Larry Hymes Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker I also had a pair in my yard yesterday. At first both were foraging on dead trees, but then one found a patch of poison ivy and was meticulously was picking individual berries off the vine. Very much surprised me,

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated feeding young

Neat observation Jack. A newer birder may often pick up on, and notice differently, behaviors that may not be described in literature and just taken for granted. I am going to guess here and describe a process that will occur with both humans and non-humans as their children grow up. Nestlings and

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated feeding young

This morning I looked up at my feeders to see a Pileated standing on the cross-bar that supports multiple feeders. This wasn’t particularly unusual except that the Pileated was standing over a feeder with oranges. A second look and I saw a second Pileated next to the first but this one was be

Re: [cayugabirds-l] pileated

Ivory bill woodpecker may have been sighted in Louisiana:) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/13/ivory-bill-woodpecker-not-extinct-researchers-say?CMP=GTUS_email On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 7:43 PM Deb Grantham wrote: > Saw one yesterday morning after hearing it to alert me, and then h

[cayugabirds-l] pileated

Saw one yesterday morning after hearing it to alert me, and then heard one in the same area this morning. Sheffield Road, Ithaca/Enfield town line, just north of Rt. 79. Deb Deborah G. Grantham Director, Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center Cornell Institute for Resource Information

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated pair and sumac

I’m also trying to establish Staghorn Sumac in my yard for winter bird food. Sometimes the autumn foliage is not just red, it can have a nearly complete rainbow of green-yellow-orange-red-purple! One of the challenges is removing the somewhat similar invasive Ailanthus. - - Dave Nutter > On J

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated pair and sumac

I love sumacs & always let them grow. Bluebirds & Robins & others eat the berries in winter. Including “my” Pileated wdpkr. In fall the foliage is brilliant red! Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2021, at 11:50 AM, "anneb.cl...@gmail.com" mailto:a

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated pair and sumac

A lovely pair of Pileated woodpeckers had a protracted morning tea on sumac seed headsmaking the sumac look very spindly! As always am working on ways to increase the sumac population. Beauty and utility! Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayug

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated pair

Usually I see just the male pileated woodpecker eating suet at my back deck feeders, but today at the same time I had a pair of them (m & f)! Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Ca

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker drumming

Hi all, On my walk on Mt Pleasant Road this morning, around 11 I heard the drumming of a Pileated Woodpecker echoing from deep in the woods on the south side of the road. With the lengthening days, it won't be long before some of our other winter residents start adding to the chorus. Maybe they

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated Wdpkr returns

“My” male Pileated Woodpecker has been here lately, loudly announcing his approach as he flies in from woods across road to the large suet cake hanging on back porch! Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2019, at 6:11 PM, Nari Mistry mailto:n...@cornell.edu>> wrote: This aftern

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Wdpkr returns

This afternoon I was happy to see a Pileated Woodpecker female at our feeder tree just outside the window. These regular visitors had not appeared since all the disruption started along Dodge Rd for the Solar Farm. (I think they used to nest somewhere in the woods to the East of Dodge Rd.) I'm

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated woodpecket

...Male, has been coming to my hanging deck suet cakes every day for about 2 weeks now. He always loudly announces his approach! Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULE

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated woodpeckers

A pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS have been cavorting around in my backyard trees making their loud "interactive calls". I could hear calls from inside the house w door shut! Snow fall has brought lots of usual feeder birds, including CAROLINA WREN. Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone -- Cayu

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpeckers

All, I knew it was going to be a good day when I saw one, two, three! Pileated Woodpeckers fly across the back yard. A Pileated Family? Regi Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. Mother Jones -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME h

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker drumming

Just heard a Pileated Woodpecker drumming several times in Ringwood Preserve. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu Website: http://www.marieread.com Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.co

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated eating suet

Pileated are currently feeding several times a day at suet feeders on nails on side of tree. It seems they must be nesting nearby and come for reliable food supply. (There have been periods in past years where I haven't seen them at feeder for months at a time.) Also Bluebirds balance

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated eating suet

In response to Nari's post, every once in awhile we too have had PILEATED WOODPECKERS working on our suet feeders -- both male and female. It's a little comical watching such a large bird clinging to such a relatively small feeder and successfully extracting suet. Larry -- =

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker a daily visitor

A gorgeous male Pileated Woodpecker has been feeding at our suet feeder several times a day for the last week or more. The feeder is only 15 feet from our kitchen window so we can watch him for several minutes at a time. Last evening he was last here at 7pm after several visits during the day a

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker

I am looking for a Pileated Woodpecker nest to photograph the activities of these birds. If anyone knows the location of an active nest could you please PM me at c...@cornell.edu Thanks Carl Steckler -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.N

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker/ grapes

As I walked south from my place an hour ago, I heard what I thought was the call of a Northern Flicker. When I finally located the bird, it was a female PILEATED WOODPECKER quietly calling while flapping awkwardly, trying to hang onto flimsy grape vines while eating the wild grapes! The call was

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated clock time & Spring rituals.

I must not live too far from Nari, and I have two *female* woodpeckers who seem to visit my yard every day. I'll have to start checking the time to note if they're as regular as her males. I always look for males, but these are two females, always busy feeding on trees both dead and alive, and they

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated clock time & Spring rituals.

For some weeks now, at 4pm every day (within 5 minutes or so), two male Pileated Woodpeckers arrive and loudly announce their presence from our neighbor's tree. Sometimes they fly over to the box-elder next to our house to our suet feeder.. Today Gin and I went for a walk down Dodge Rd and on t

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated couple...

We saw actual mating in an oak tree in my back yard which is very close to Sapsucker woods. These birds have been coming to our suet feeder for several weeks. Awesome!!! Therese -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayuga

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated nest - FLT

I happened to see a Pileated Woodpecker enter a neat round hole in a sycamore this morning. I sat down and watched from a distance for five or ten minutes, to see what might happen. The woodpecker remained inside the entire time, only peeping out occasionally. Looks like a nest hole. Nice to cat

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated drumming!

OMG, there has been a Pileated Woodpecker male drumming in the woods behind my house this morning. I snuck up on it earlier, and now it's out there again, drumming away and giving its loud ringing calls. I have an outside microphone that picks up the bird sounds outside...maintains my sanity ove

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated WPs and Redpolls

A few minutes ago, as we were having lunch, two gorgeous male Pileated Woodpeckers flew down just outside our window, one low on the box-elder the other low on a black locust nearby. I think they were sizing up each other, in an annual Spring ritual in our yard. In my bird archives I see that l

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated

72690423-5851...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-72690423-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Diana > [whiti...@roadrunner.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:48 AM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated > > Good morning! While walking our dog, my husban

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated

14?mt=11 > > From: bounce-72690423-5851...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-72690423-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Diana > [whiti...@roadrunner.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:48 AM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: [c

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Pileated holes

Last winter I noticed a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker pecking on our 24 yr. old flowering crabapple tree out front, so intent on it's work it wasn't at all perturbed when I walked to within about 7' & watched as it pecked holes & tore into the bark. I thought it was just after something under the b

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated

CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated Good morning! While walking our dog, my husband saw a live tree that looks like a Pileated Woodpecker has been excavating. It has a pile of chips at the base, and a few holes encompassing the tree. I think the tree is a live tree also. My question is, i

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated

Good morning! While walking our dog, my husband saw a live tree that looks like a Pileated Woodpecker has been excavating. It has a pile of chips at the base, and a few holes encompassing the tree. I think the tree is a live tree also. My question is, is a nest or a place where it's eating, and

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpeckers feeding young

Marie Read has just posted a wonderful story on the Musicofnature web site featuring an adult pileated feeding young in a nest cavity. There are two photos and several sound recordings that document the action. View it at http://www.musicofnature.org/pileated-woodpeckers-growing-up/ Bob McG

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker Mating Dance

On Sat. when I went to my mailbox on North Sunset Drive Ithaca, I noticed that my neighbors had a spotting scope aimed on a tree trunk. There were 2 Pileated Woodpeckers scurrying up and down the tree. I was told that they had been there for a least one hour. I got my binocs and watched for aro

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Wdpkr and Carolina Wren make backyard rounds for GBBC

A Pileated Woodpecker flew in and made the rounds of our backyard as we were observing for the GBBC today. A Carolina Wren also showed up again after weeks, singing all around the backyard, celebrating the count weekend. A Bluebird has been singing for several days. The lone Redpoll has not been

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated woodpecker

>From 2:30 to 3 p.m. today I watched a good-sized male Pileated Woodpecker just back of my house. He was tearing apart a pile of rotted logs that have been there for years. He worked his way along the side and nearly under when a gray squirrel came sauntering along down the side hill and too close

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker

Hi Paul, Pileated Woodpeckers are widely reported to favor the berries of flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Check out this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/20136270@N04/2116217431/ -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker & Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu ge

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker

Saw this for my first time last year. Saw pileateds feeding on Virginia Creeper berries and then, for as long as the grapes persisted on vines in a maple at the front of my driveway, had them visit for that fruit snack everyday. Just goes to show, as birders, we've never seen it all. Keep on

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker

A friend reported that he is observing a Pileated Woodpecker feeding on the berries on a Dogwood. He’s knowledgeable and a good observer. Wondering if anyone has observed this? Seems out of character to me. Appreciate any insights that can be shared. Paul Schmitt -- Cayugabirds-L List Info

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pileated Wood peckers

Last fall I was surprised to see a Pileated Woodpecker flying in large circles about five feet above the ground in front of the A. D. White House. It repeatedly came within ten feet or so of the sidewalks busy with human traffic. A couple of weeks ago I managed to sneak up on a Pileated Woodpe

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpeckers

Meena’s comments on pileated woodpeckers in suburban and urban areas reminded me that I found one (vocalizing frequently) in a tree in a parking lot next to Risley Hall on the Cornell campus one morning during spring break, probably March 24. (Risley is just north of the Thurston Ave. bridge ov

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Wood peckers

I recently seem to be seeing Pileateds in suburban and urban areas. Today I was driving on Spencer road when I saw a Pileated fly on to a tree near the car wash. Recently, I have seen Pileateds from the bus in East Ithaca area, one at the junction of Honness and Pine Tree Road, one on Synder H

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated Woodpecker outside Mann Library

A pileated woodpecker has been regularly seen high up in a pine tree outside Mann Library. The 3rd floor of Mann offers an eye-level view, and binos are at the window for general use. http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/news/bird-watching-alert-library Enjoy, Marty =