We took pictures of a female Pileated woodpecker on our feeder. We didn't notice until we were looking at them on the computer that she has what we think is a brood patch.

We have had females in the past during breeding season and had never seen anything like this. Could it have been necessary this year with such a cool spring or is this typical?

You can view her at the link.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c301/BobnBernie/Pileatedbroodpatch.jpg

BobnBernie
Renton
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