Sunday, December 7, 2008

Pileated Woodpeckers




Saturday morning 17 degrees and clear. I decided to follow up on some postings of waterfowl located in the next county. Not having many migrents of late, Howard County has been very blah.




Piney Branch Park, located in Carroll County has a beautiful lake that abounds with waterfowl, Canadas, Ringnecked Ducks, Ringbilled Gulls, Buffleheads, Hooded Mergansers, Wigeons, Great Blue Herons, Mallards, Ruddy Ducks, Black Ducks, American Coots and several others that were too far away to view without a scope.




But my highlight for the morning were two Pileated Woodpecker working the trees for insectsPosted by Picasatotally unperturbed by my presences. I watched them for maybe five minutes before they flew off .

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