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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Pileated1 Woodpecker sighting!

We didn't take the picture, alas, but we did see a Pileated Woodpecker this morning, forty or so feet up in a tree perhaps seventy-five yards from our back door. Through our fieldscope.
    Let this finally move us to go ahead and purchase the Nikon Coolpix P300 and accessories for attaching it to our scope for digiscoping (digital photography through a fieldscope). It's even on sale right now from Nikon (but Amazon's price is still $50 less, with no shipping charges).
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  1. pi·le·at·ed adj: having a crest covering the pileum [the top of the head of a bird from the bill to the nape]

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  1. Go for it. I'd like to see some of those photos.

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  2. Steve, thanks for your encouragement, in need of which we seem to be (we're so slow to take action).
        Seeing the Pileated Woodpecker up as close as we could through the fieldscope was truly thrilling—to think that we might have had a photo to go back and check whether, for example, it had a red spot on its cheek or red on top starting at the very front or only up a ways (markers for male/female).
        At this point, I confess, we're not sure whether we were seeing a male or a female.

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