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Pileated woodpeckers are very cool birds. I haven't seen one in several years. We have two pair that have been around for years at our N.E. Bamma spot. The boys are ALWAYS amazed at them as well as I.
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I lost much of my hearing in 1971. Now I can hear birds again. You guys have no idea how thrilling it is. Our cabin sits at the edge of a woodlot filled with birds from owls to several kinds of woodpeckers. Now I watch and listen.
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There's flocks of Honkers that fly over my house every day and sometimes they'll land in the fields behind my house. I've got a pair of Eurasian Collared Doves nesting in a spruce tree in the front yard even though it's winter.
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My grandfather use to goose hunt on the St. Lawrence somewhere NW of Potsdam, of course that was in the 1920's. "We're "somewhere NW of Potsdam". When I was a kid I used to hunt with some of the old timers from that era. One was an old bootlegger. Great stories of days gone by. Are you connected with this area, Scott?
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Had family in the Lake Placid area MANY moons ago. Both sides of my family are from NY state.
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Pard's mom has a Purple Martin box up. It was chilly one AM and we were waiting for the wind to go down and sun to get higher and I was bored. ![[Linked Image]](http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o242/Horsaca/Fishing%2012/IMG_0607_zps4c0d7938.jpg)
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Birds are cool.
We have quite a few pileated woodpeckers around, SE Okla. Nothing like hearing them in the spring and having a gobbler gobble at it. We dont have bobwhite quail anymore. Sad deal. As a kid growing up in the late 60's & 70's everybody who hunted had a dog pen with bird dogs. I cant remember the last pointer or setter I've seen around here.
We put hummingbird feeders out during the summer and enjoy them a lot.
We have some sort of little birds that make several nests in out barn each summer and raise babies. Pretty neat stuff.
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Pard's mom has a Purple Martin box up. It was chilly one AM and we were waiting for the wind to go down and sun to get higher and I was bored.
Neat pic, nice color..I think that's a Tree swallow...
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We have had Gray Catbirds nesting next to our house for the last several years, they have a beautiful and very recognizable song. You are more likely to hear a Catbird singing than to see them. ![[Linked Image]](http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/sbrinkerhoff/DSC02301.jpg)
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I have tons of birds around my place. Love watching the numerous valley quail & turkeys. There were 50 + turkeys off my back deck the other day. ![[Linked Image]](http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/HunterHarry/004_zps4f493b12.jpg)
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Birds are indeed cool to watch but if you watch them close, you will never see an animal with a colder, more heartless eye. The little dinosaurs have no mercy at all. We are lucky that they are not larger. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2004/10/38_4425a09375aa197d5f3811f4b58e039f.jpg)
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Birds of Prey are most fascinating to me. I have had the good fortune of seeing two Prairie Falcons locally in the last couple of months. Very unusual, as it is outside their normal range. I suspect that with the drought being so bad in Texas lately, that they are ranging a bit to find prey.
When I retire, I will take up falconry.
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If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Not only woodie boxes but I bet you could put up whistler boxes too.
I think they should be in your area and they take well to slightly larger boxes and holes IIRC. Its been a few years since we put ours up...
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Pileated woodpeckers are very cool birds. I haven't seen one in several years. Yeah they are uber cool. I'd put them in my top five. I don't think they're very plentiful anywhere. I get them in my yard, I love to watch them fly. We have at least three nesting pairs on our place. One pair nests in an old sycamore tree about 100 yards from our front porch and I can watch them everyday. We also have Great Horned Owls, a pair of Red Tail Hawks, Bluebirds, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Yellow belly Sapsuckers, Flickers, Thrush, Carolina Wrens, Nuthatches, Titmouse (Titmice?  ), Chickadees, Killdeer, and too many damned Crows. I love to watch the birds! Ed
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In the last week alone I have seen a Great Horned Owl, two Red Shouldered Hawks, a Redtail Hawk, a Pileated Woodpecker and heard a several Barred Owls and a Screech Owl all in the woods behind my house. It is almost time to start hearing the Chuck-Wills-Widows calling at night down here too. I look forward to that every year.
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Pileated woodpeckers are very cool birds. I haven't seen one in several years. We have quite a few up here. Cool birds and I think their call is great. It wakes up the turkeys too.
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Pard's mom has a Purple Martin box up. It was chilly one AM and we were waiting for the wind to go down and sun to get higher and I was bored.
Neat pic, nice color..I think that's a Tree swallow... I think so, too. We've got a pair of tree swallows that nest every year in a blue bird house I built. Love to watch 'em flit about eating bugs. Lousy pic- ![[Linked Image]](http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/bruinruin/872411343_photobucket_76912_.jpg)
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Birds are indeed cool to watch but if you watch them close, you will never see an animal with a colder, more heartless eye. The little dinosaurs have no mercy at all. We are lucky that they are not larger. Cool pic. We get occasional sightings of a Northern Shrike throughout winter. This year I had one chasing after the chickadees that were nibbling on some corn I had thrown out for the deer.
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Love watching Ravens floating the thermals at the bluff overlooking Kachemak Bay. For their size they are amazingly agile.
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They have quite the range of vocalizations, too.
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