Pileated eats rowan

 

I only manage to spot a Pileated Woodpecker a few times a year, usually when it is probing for grubs, but sometimes when it is eating them. In the fall, I have seen it eat elderberries.

Yesterday was the first time I watched one feast on rowan berries. (It is difficult enough getting a shot of any backlit bird deep inside a tree’s canopy, so the feeding was a bonus.) 

A female Pileated Woodpecker picks a rowan berry and eats it.

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  1. Don & Joanne McCuaig says:

    Photo capturing a Pileated is an achievement anytime…well done! Our last capture was @ Schroeder’s R V Resort back in September. Beaking bugs out of base of large Cedar.

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