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King woodpecker

August 09, 2020 - It was a warm morning with yet more heat to arrive, so the natural world decided to get to work early. So did I, but as...
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Forget social distancing

May 27, 2020 - I needed to make a reconnaissance hike through the Babcock Ridge and Henne preserves—my goal was to shot videos that I c...
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Woodpecker at work

January 07, 2020 - With the "heat wave" continuing for at least one more day, the local Pileated Woodpeckers have been very loud and very a...
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Flicker, well-grounded

January 27, 2019 - The Northern Flicker that made a surprise visit last week—I don't usually see these striking members of the Woodpecker f...
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Riley reckoning

March 05, 2018 - With my granddaughter Stasia safely back home and in school—and the wind diminished enough so that I no longer need a ha...
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Pileated, diminished

February 10, 2018 - This morning when I went to the bathroom, I noticed something strange near the top of the tree that holds our suet cage.
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Woody is back

January 15, 2018 - I heard the woodpecker long before I saw him... and that's hardly surprising. Pileated Woodpeckers, our largest local me...
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Excavation project

December 01, 2017 - Pileated Woodpeckers, our largest local member of the bird family Picidae, are more often heard than seen, and this morn...
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Unnatural light

June 12, 2017 - It was around 9:30 on an incredibly warm and still night and I was just about to start getting the air-conditioner insta...
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Punk Pileated

April 19, 2017 - The day dawned and remained pretty dreary throughout, and, with iffy weather tomorrow—the day I was scheduled to be teac...
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Snowy visitor

March 10, 2017 - Ah, March. Yesterday was butterflies and amphibians; today is cold and heavy snow. Incipient spring is back in hiding an...
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Pileated very busywork

November 12, 2015 - Just to show I'm not superstitious, I went out for a walk on Friday the 13th, and coming back from the water's edge by t...
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Hidden excavation

January 22, 2015 - I've been hiking the first of the doomed fields and forest—the real estate to my west—continuously this winter, if for n...
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