Date: 8/1/25 5:59 am From: Fred Bouchard <frederickbouchard...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] Three Animated Pileated Woodpeckers
By a strange coincidence, having read George & Judy Gove's note [below],
we too were entertained early AM by the antics of three juvenile PIWOs on
the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee at Stonedam Island [Meredith] --
tooting gently, wickering, flitting here there, hide-and-seek high and low
in large pines,
exploring birches, pecking berries along the shore-line like Mallards do.
Monitored at a distance by a wacky pack of young Blue Jays. A jolly
few minutes!
Fred Bouchard
We live in an urban/suburban area of a city with an Interstate just west
of us and in a condominium complex, not a place where I would think of
for Pileated Woodpeckers but we have had them here for several years.
Normally we would hear them but occasionally get a sighting. One year we
saw one eating the fruit of a Tupelo tree next to our road. This year we
have quite a few sightings usually of one bird but the other day there
were three of them on some dead trees in our complex near our unit, the
most we have seen in one sighting and possibly a family group. They were
very noisy and flew off more or less together over our house. They have
provided us with entertainment particularly this year....
George Gove & Judy Gordon
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