On July 21, a male Pileated brought a single young (pale pinkish-red
puffy crest) bird, probably a female (no red on face) into our yard
twice, fed copiously from the suet cake (very awkwardly as the suet
is hanging down from a stand) and then fed the young that was parked
on a nearby tree. I got a few photos of the two of them together. I
saw it come in with the young bird twice over a period of a few
hours, then it came in a third time by itself but filled up again and
presumably flew back to where it had left the young. That was the
only day this happened. I hadn't heard a Pileated for some time and
didn't know there was one around, although I have always thought they
bred in the wooded ravine behind our house. Perhaps they moved
farther away after this session with our suet.

Dennis

On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:00 PM, tweeters-
request at mailman1.u.washington.edu wrote:

> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:47:11 -0700
> From: "Ruth Sullivan" <godwit513 at msn.com>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Pileated Woodpecker w.Young today
> To: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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> Hello Tweeters,
> It was worth staying home today,after being absent since June the
> 20th,I
> had the female Pileated Woodpecker bringing her young in to my
> yard.She went
> on the Suet,the two young birds was sitting still in the Birch
> tree,after a
> while she came to the young and fed them suet while I watched and
> taken
> photos.This is only the second time that I see a Pileated
> Woodpecker feeding
> there young.The other occasion appeared in Snow Park Okanagon
> Co.There we
> had a pair of Pileated and Williamson's Sapsucker side by side
> feeding there
> young in trees.The Pileated Woodpecker is of view in a Burien
> Park,it was a
> laminated photo.The Squirrel scared the woodpeckers today,so there
> went deep
> in to the trees.This pair of Woodpeckers been here since the 17 of
> November
> coming every day to June ,when there was breeding.I also had a
> group of 18
> Bushtit's where there enjoyed the birdbath mixing in with all the many
> Chickadee's of both races.
>
> It was a good day
> Cheers Ruth Sullivan

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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