So I hear all this banging

[ewagner]

on my neighbors siding.....so I ran out and this guy flys from the house to the nearest tree.....hard-headed sonofagun has been at it all afternoon! What is he?<>

[Richardo]

1. Looks like a pileated woodpecker

They're pretty big...We get them on our cedar siding every now and again (NOT THE CEDAR, GUYS!)



Sounds exactly like a jackhammer.

[Debi]

6. I got the woodpecker part right

Just not good on all the different variations...knew Yellowbellied had the red crown, guess I don't know enough :shrug: *sigh*

[Debi]

2. Wood pecker

Maybe Yellowbellied? too big to be a Downy or Hairy. Hmmmm

[MuseRider]

3. Pilated Woodpecker I think.

Wow, I would love to see one of them. We get Flickers that just hang on our house and beat away at it. We have to run outside and make a lot of noise then they come right back. Many holes in the Cedar siding. Love them but that drives me crazy.

[benddem]

4. Have you heard the

woody woodpecker call....ah ha ha ha ha (you add the notes)? if so it is a pileated. Wait till he starts on your roof at 5:00 AM. Such fun.

[ewagner]

5. Actually

he started at 5:30 this morning according to my wife....I didn't hear him...she said I must have be sleeping on my "good ear"....lololol.......

on edit: we replaced our cedar siding a year or so ago.....the nuthatches punched all kinds of holes in it.....

[bertha katzenengel]

7. WOW! That's a pileated woodpecker (I think)!!

I have never seen one, but I hear them. WOW! You are way lucky!! Congrats on the pic!

[jukes]

8. def a pileated

several visit me in the summer. if memory serves, they can be as tall as 18".

gorgeous dinosaur descendants!

watched a parent perch & guard youngster while he tried out my sunflower-seed feeding station, mingled w/ the mourning doves on the ground, for app 2 hours last summer. bird feeding area is about 6' from my enclosed cat-porch; set up to entertain my indoor cats.

birdies/kitties all very happy!

[lumberingbear]

9. Does anyone else see a man's face in the tree bark?

Doesn't look like Jesus though!

[ewagner]

11. Rats.....

I was already setting it up for ebay!!!!!

[RC]

13. He looks like a '60s hippie

[ewagner]

14. Like your sig line RC

It was the "unofficial" logo of our sales staff at the last company I worked for.......

btw: I wish I had used my 35mm with the 200 mm lens...it would have been a better pic.....

[CottonBear]

10. Very cool pileated woodpecker! I didn't know they lived up north.

We have them here in the southeast. They can make big holes. They really like old, rotton logs and standing snags, which is all the more reason not to "clear brush and dead trees."

[hippiegranny]

12. red headed

pecker pecker?