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twobob
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USA
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Posted - 06/01/2007 : 23:04:47

comming home from our recent trip to new mexico we stopped at mt. magizine in arkansas(wooohooo highest point 2,753ft) and heard and saw a pilated wood pecker flying off. bob(husband) had read or heard somewhere that if you take a rock and whack a tree two times in a row, wait a couple seconds and whack the tree again, wait and repeat that those beautiful wood peckers will come investigate the 'territorial' whacks. so here we were out in the boonies(thank goodness, cause he sure looked a mite touched in the head) and bob was going WHACK WHACK......WHACK WHACK.....WHACK WHACK..... and to my amazement here came a pilated woodpecker giving out that distintive call, it lit on a dead tree and started WHACK WHACK....WHACK WHACK.... the camera came out but before a photo could be taken it flew off all the time calling. so don't send the men in white coats yet.

Dayhiker
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USA
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Posted - 06/03/2007 : 16:33:46

I might have to try that! We live in a clearing in the woods and have pileated woodpeckers nesting here so we do see them fairly often and hear them a lot. Cool birds. When our sons were young we were out hiking with them and saw a pileated woodpecker family of two adults and three young working on a downed log. No camera of course. :(

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