Rob,

Interesting story! We all know that Flickers are really into heavy metal
such as gutters and drainpipes! It is very annoying when my wife's
"boyfriend" gives its mating call at 5:00 am in the spring and I have to get
out of bed and shoo it!
I have indeed heard a Pileated Woodpecker drum on wood and you will know
from quite a distance who the drummer is!

Hans Feddern
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, Wa.
thefedderns at gmail.com

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Rob Sandelin <floriferous at msn.com> wrote:

> The owner of the property that accesses our school wetlands did some road
> building and clearing so I went out to evaluate how that might affect our
> spring wetland days. I had climbed up the newly reshaped and now treeless
> hill when I heard this odd, hollow, metallic, BONK BONK BONK. I looked up
> towards the sound and heard it again, then I saw a Pileated fly out from the
> other side of the machine. I have never heard of a Pileated drumming
> before, I always thought they called instead but I could figure no other
> reason for the noise other than the bird whacking on the machine.
>
> Go get em.
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Naturalist, Writer, Teacher
> Snohomish County, WA
>
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