We built our own bird feeder pole from a piece of treated wood and iron planter hangers. As you can see from the picture, our feeders attract interesting birds. This Pileated Woodpecker has visited us twice. The smaller woodpecker is a Red Bellied Woodpecker. We feed the birds all year long.
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You are SOOOOOOOOOO lucky to have a pileated woodpecker at your feeder! I've only seen one a handful of times and it was in Central Missouri. What part of the country do you live in?
Thanks for sharing this photo!
Aren't they wonderfull to see so close up! We have them come into our feeder right near our house, they love the suet. I am on Vancouver Island, BC & we have lots of birds, feed them all year. We are in the country on an acreage & no cats around.
We too had a Pileated Wood pecker at our feeder,We are in Innisfil, Ontario Canada and i have never saw one before,as I thought they were a warmer climate bird,intill I saw your picture i was having real doubts as to weather it really was Pileated Woodpecker,It was on the far side of our feeder and I thought it was a crow, as I could only see his tail, I rapped on the window to scare the "crow" away . THen I realized what it was. I haven't seen it since,we hope it will return someday. They are so beautiful.
Thanks for enjoying the picture! We live in Indiana. We are lucky to see a woodpecker like this and lucky to get a picture of him.
Warning !
Please if you feed the birds keep your feeders clean up because birds are picking up more and more diseases from dirty feeders. Things lie E-coli are now killing birds. do a search on feeding birds and get all the details.
So Please again be very careful when feeding wild birds.
They have enough troubles living in this modern society as it is.
If you can't find those websites I will get them for you.
Soory to be a wet Blanket.
Mike
Pileated woodpeckers come to our yard every spring. We live on the top edge of a river valley in Manitoba, Canada and each spring the male pileated woodpecker comes to our yard pole and bangs on the top of the pole on the metal up there and makes quite the racket. I guess he must be calling all the females around for miles because it sure is noisy.
We live on a small lake in a wooded area in Michigan. We have seen a pileated woodpecker just once. The actual size of the bird amazed me! Thank you so much for sharing the photo.
Carol
I live in Southern MI but, when we go up north to our cottage in Hale we always bring suet feeders for the Pileated Woodpecker that is always there. We can always hear him and its awesome to see him up close (about 3 feet away)!
Beautiful, big one spotted up close here Aug 2007
Well believe it or not, we see one near our house in Alexandria NJ all four seasons! But he doesn't come near the house. He stays along the tree line about 50ft away.
When we hear his piercing call we run to the window to watch him flick from tree to tree spending a few moments on each.
Nature is beautiful, and we are all connected, my friends, no matter what anyone says. Ask not what your planet can do for you .... ask what you can do for your planet.
August 30, 2008
I saw the pileated woodpecker today in Maine (close to Bangor), we've seen him before but not to often. I started feeding suet year round this year & have 2 - 3 different size woodpeckers here all the time.
I have a terrible time with raccoons! Watching birds and feeding them is one of the joys of my life. But the raccoons are determined to tear up every feeder and eat every bite of anything that we put out. Does anyone know a humane way to keep the raccoons away? Other than getting humane traps and carrying them to other areas to pester someone else? They are cute but they are so destructive! I know there are at least a dozen here and I suspect many, many more. I can have nothing because of them. They even dig up my small garden and eat the food! I have Red-Bellied Woodpeckers as well as many Downies. I suspect there may be Pileated Woodies around here also as I hear a loud woodpecker call. My best treat this year was in the early spring and I looked out my kitchen window to see a pair of adult Bald Eagles. I grabbed my camera and took a picture thru the window and screen but you can clearly tell what they are. I live in East Tennessee on the Tennessee River.
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