Nice photos! Thanks for sharing.
Stan Arnold
Glen Burnie
----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Walker and R. Nesbitt" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:10 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Pileated Woodpecker Nest pictures
> 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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