Tag: Pileated Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)

There are approximately 200 different kinds of woodpeckers in the world. In Washington State we have four native woodpeckers: The Pileated Woodpecker, the Northern Flicker, the Downy Woodpecker, and the Red-Breasted Sapsucker. At least three of these live in the Redmond Wetland Mitigation, our backyard. This of course made it easy for us to find [...]

Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)

We added an arm to the bird feeder on the back porch and then added a suet case. This has attracted a few new birds. We will try to get photographs of them sometime soon. However, one regular visitor now is the downy woodpecker. He hangs out for long periods of time, pecking away at [...]

Pileated Woodpecker (a bird a day)

Ha-ha-ha-ha-hahahahaha… woody woodpecker was fashioned after today’s bird, the Pileated Woodpecker. He’s sooooo cute. It is about the size of the crow which is actually large for a woodpecker. I wouldn’t have thought they’d be so small really. I don’t know why. Maybe I watched too many cartoons growing up and not enough birds in [...]