Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Shortsighted on June 12, 2024, 04:13:56 PM
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I just love it when a bird advertises its presence in a definitive manner, although perhaps somewhat less ostentatiously as Foghorn Leghorn might proclaim ... I'm here, I'm here, let the bells ring out and the banners fly, but I'm here! A Pileated woodpecker comes close, if not quite as articulate, because I sometimes confuse them with flicker. Unfortunately, nine times out of ten they settle high up a tree.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-pvhv7W5/3/C3qFqbtt6b8NXRpZqD8q4vZBKDTv7pGB3xSgdHDD7/L/Pileated%20WP%2CX-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-pvhv7W5/A)
( 420 mm, f5.6 )
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Envy!!!
Did you see this bird recently? Near where you are?
8)
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Yes, an no. I heard a Pileated woodpecker in the street-side woodlot a couple of times during the last two weeks. The first time I entered the woodlot looking for it, which turned out to be a big mistake. The woodlot is too dense a tangle to make any progress and rubber boots are essential. The second time I did find one, probably the same bird again. I also saw one at Cranberry Marsh, albeit briefly, and one at the McLoughlin Bay area as a fly-over in Oshawa, as well as in the Guildwood, and the Amos Pond area. Last month I saw a PW more often. As I may have previously intimated, I never go out specifically looking for a Pileated woodpecker. That would be pretentious. Wait a minute, I am pretentious so maybe I should give it a try. Please, don't envy me. I'm old and it sucks. Late yesterday afternoon I felt like my right hip was dislocating and then I remembered my boot getting stuck in the mud at the bottom of Reesor Pond. The silt is so soft that even a light-weight like me in over-sized chest wader boots got sucked under. I had to pull so hard to free my right foot from the muck that it must surely be the cause of the discomfort I felt late yesterday. It feels better this morning. Normally I do not have a hip problem. I have an age problem and I've been told that it's terminal.
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What do you mean yes and no? This is just one bird, it can split its location in the photo?? ;)
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Yes, I saw it recently. It may be the same bird that I previously saw, even before this photo. Perhaps even from last year. They have a large territory and therefore it may not actually be a new PWP. The last time that I saw two PWP at the same time was at Duffins Creek. They were too high for a photo and located into the sun, don't ya know.