I don't see these birds very often in my yard. Here they tend to stay in the more wooded areas. I might get them to come to a bird feeder, but at this point in my life I don't have the consistency to maintain a feeder.
This guy is called a piliated woodpecker. I saw one of these in flight in a heavilly
tree lined street just outside a neighborhood. Flying in the same direction I was driving, it flew down over the hood of my car, and kept flying out in front, down the street. It is one of my more awesome bird memories. I had never seen a piliated woodpecker before and the view from below was magnificant. As you can see from the picture below, their underside is black and white and the particular bird I saw had a wonderful black and white pattern on his underbelly as well. I knew it was a woodpecker of some sort so I came home and looked it up in my bird book and learned it was the piliated! I dated the sighting in my book as my mama says my Grandma Rose taught her to do!
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