Wednesday 8 January 2014

Day 69 - A new garden visitor



Making a great deal of noise and hence frightening off the squirrels and other birds, we had a visit from the rather splendid, very black and  quite huge Pileated Woodpecker this afternoon.  The photo unfortunately doesn't do her justice, when I reached for the proper camera she flew away.


Later we had a visit from our more frequent visitor the Downy Woodpecker and the two are at each end of the spectrum in terms of size - the Pileated is the largest in North America and the Downy is one of the smallest.

I shall hope for a further visit with the camera nearer to hand.

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