Pileated Woodpecker I saw today.

[_CY_]

hunting in Pawhuska yesterday .. saw two of em .. great timing as I was getting ready to look them up.
they are large birds compared to regular wood peckers. quite the treat watching them at work.

the woods I was in are exceedingly wild, untouched from statehood days .. remnants from Cross Timbers era ..

 

[swampratt]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing the excellent pictures.

 

[COZICAN]

Beautiful. Grew up watching those just north of Houston.

 

[davek]

I thought I saw one of those 2 days ago. It was early morning and I could only see the silhouette. I have a couple of dead/dying Maple trees that seem to have become woddpecker condos.

 

[Cedar Creek]

I saw one yesterday morning - came and worked over a dead tree by me just a little northeast of Honobia. When I parked my truck to go to my stand there was a bald eagle sitting in the top of lone hard wood tree in a clearcut about 150 yards up the mountain from me.

Cedar Creek

 

[1mathom1]

Got a pair in the woods behind the house on the southwest edge of Stillwater. Have not been lucky enough to have my camera with me when I have seen them.