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Dryocopus pileatus
Hard to describe except for the head shown. Definitely a pileated. I believe a male. Adult? Either a male sitting on eggs or a juvenile male awaiting the time to test out flight. Would appreciate any insight as to the sex and age.
In this case, nest has been built again. At a cost of over $12,000 the nesting holes were professionally sealed last March after the young had fledged and all left the nest. With great energy the parents have pummeled the "Dryvit" or "EIFS" material of a class "A" office building in Boca Raton, Florida, USA to re-form the nest. Located next to a suburban golf course (former wetland) 9 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
Hard to describe except for the head shown. Definitely a pileated. I believe a male. Adult? Either a male sitting on eggs or a juvenile male awaiting the time to test out flight. Would appreciate any insight as to the sex and age.
Spotted on Jan 28, 2013
Submitted on Jan 28, 2013
14 Comments
You're welcome - and thanks for the update! Interesting to know that they are going back to the same spot, despite humans' attempts to try to force them into finding a new home. :>)
Wow, Thanks for the info. Haven't had such a good pileated shot in a while. The 2013 repairs have already torn open. The pileateds, "in cahoots" with their red headed woodpecker "cohorts" don't take long at all. I really like to watch them though. Lots of fun because they seem so intent on their work. Thanks again for letting me know @Maria dB ;-)
Hi Mick, your interesting spotting has been featured in the Project Noah blog on woodpeckers today: http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/5715637...
Thanks again
Great series!
nice find..
They appear to have abandoned the nest and starlings have moved in. Didn;t getr to catch the fledgling try to fly. Maybe next year. Time to patch the wholes.
Wow!
It's fixed now. Needed support to fix @AshleyT worked on it for me
Hmmm..thanks for adding Animal Architecture. Something is up with the program and now you have 7 missions when you should only be able to have 5. I'd say leave it alone till tomorrow and then try to delete the 2 that don't belong. This is a great Nature v. human spotting.
@Ava T-B had a problem with Explorer, wouldnt respond to my designations was ticking its own choices. Should be fixed now.
Oh no... running out of trees around there? Great spotting.
Since this isn't a raptor or a rare color morph, can you please remove those missions and PLEASE consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082...
Great shot and so interesting about them re-opening the nest hole! Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat, in adult females these are black.