Pileated woodpecker @ Chester River Md

[jeff kushner]

I got his pic this morning! We had seen him a couple of times in the past week. It's the 1st one of these that I have ever seen in Maryland since I got here in 1963.
Not great lighting as the sun was gone and it was drizzling on and off.....

As always, if you right-click and Open in new tab, you can click again to get up close and personal.....pretty cool looking bird. We had these in Ann Arbor when I was a kid. I thought they were cool then!

 

[wellington]

Love those birds. So prehistoric looking. My parents place in MI get them a lot. One, years ago, was so huge, biggest I ever seen and very old looking. We only seen it for two years and then I think it probably died. This was many years ago.