Ginny,
I just love that 3rd picture; so much so, that I made it my computer desktop for this week!! It's such a sweet picture and you did such a great job! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful photos with us!
Jenny McClintock
Columbia, MD
> Hi all,
>
> I've been lurking reading other posts for some time
> now... I really enjoy MDOSPREY. Having something I
> feel I should share has gotten me past my shyness in
> posting.
>
> There was an earlier post this spring about Pileated
> Woodpecker nests. I was fortunate to have a pair
> select a dead tree in the woods in front of our house.
> (Very considerate of them as we needed them for the
> Atlas block!)
>
> I successfully digiscoped some pictures (not bad for
> a first-timer) and have posted three of them to the
> following web site: http://webspace4me.net/~troopinfo/
>
> When I first saw the nest hole (after noticing parent
> activity in the area but not seeing either parent on
> the tree) I thought it might be too round to belong to
> Pileateds. The first photo shows the nest hole
> without birds and, like the earlier reference, the
> hole is quite round but the lower lip has been chipped
> away. It is not the oval shape I'd been expecting for
> Pileateds. The other 2 photos show young and the
> female parent.
>
> Let me know if there is difficulty in viewing the
> pictures.
>
> Ginny Walker
> Highland, MD (Howard Cty)
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