Mornings in the Gabriola forest are amazing these days, because the piliated woodpeckers have a lot to say. Close your eyes and listen to this video, while you imagine lots of these birds drumming and calling amongst the cedar and douglas fir trees. I love these sounds; this might be my favourite Gabriola bird.
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I’m not good at identifying birds, but I think this must be a downy woodpecker. This one is at Drumbeg, but of course they’re all over Gabriola. They’re hard (for me) to photograph because they don’t sit still for very long.
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We’ve got lots of woodpeckers on Gabriola, and until now I’ve just seen them doing woodpecker-type things. Like, you know, pecking wood. So why did one woodpecker suddenly decide that our window needed pecking? What’s the appeal of pecking glass? And how can I send him back to the trees? Somebody on Metafilter asked the [...]
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What I learned about woodpeckers this week is that different kinds of woodpeckers make different kind of holes. (I guess this makes perfect sense; I’d just never thought of it before.) The rectangular holes in this cedar tree were made by a pileated woodpecker. Mr Pileated Woodpecker is the fellow shown here in the blackberry [...]
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