(Photo by DON BARTLING)
Idaho’s biggest woodpecker, easily recognized with his black body and white stripes down the neck and brilliant flame-red crest.
March 4, 2018
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March 4, 2018 midnight
The beat goes on for pileated woodpecker
Moments after the red-crested forest ghost landed on the pine tree with the suet bird feeder perhaps 50 feet away, another more distant rattling call resonated through the woods, silencing the constant chatter of a squirrel protesting the intruder. Another three second burst of loud tree whacking confirmed that a mate was near-by.