Holy CATS!
Or birds, actually.
Drumroll, please:
This evening I saw, from my yard, a pileated woodpecker!
Okay, okay, so it's not an ivory-billed woodpecker, and it isn't exactly an endangered species. But I'll tell you, when you see a brilliantly black and white woodpecker the size of a crow flying around, and you've never seen one except in field guides in your entire life, it's an event.
[insert Woody Woodpecker laugh here]
(What? You didn't know Woody Woodpecker was based on the pileated woodpecker? Haha ha HA hah!)
Labels: birdwatching
posted by Alwen | 8:45 PM
3 Comments:
Yes@ It's a big deal! Aren't they amazing?
I've only seen one once, last summer, and it was totally memorable. I'm jealous of your sighting.
I definitely know that laugh from the woodpecker, I remember watching the show.
that is so cool--now where was your camera? hehehe
They *are* amazing! The black and white is so striking, it's hard to put into words.
Of course, the camera was nowhere to be found!
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