A bold bird, out of sight
Nov 01, 2019
2 minutes
By John Thaxton
s we finished our breakfast by a stream along the trail to the summit of Dix Mountain, we flinched violently as four enormous birds, screaming bloody murder, landed on a large horizontal limb 10 feet over our heads. A single adult male pileated woodpecker proceeded, in a style that struck us as downright mechanical and military, to feed three young pileateds—it stuck
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