{"id":34974,"date":"2025-09-29T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34974"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:44:45","slug":"pileated-woodpecker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34974","title":{"rendered":"Pileated Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have occasionally been seeing a young male Pileated Woodpecker (blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34868, and blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34873). It was seen again, this time eating the berries of a dogwood.<\/p>\n<p>Before flying down to the dogwood, the woodpecker perched on electric wire above a cable splice closure. I don&#8217;t often include pictures of wildlife in such settings, but as far as the woodpecker is concerned, this is perfectly natural.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34976\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pileatedwoodpecker250927as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pileated Woodpecker then flew down to a red osier dogwood and ate berries.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34975\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pileatedwoodpecker250927bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have occasionally been seeing a young male Pileated Woodpecker (blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34868, and blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34873). It was seen again, this time eating the berries of a dogwood. Before flying down to the dogwood, the woodpecker perched on electric wire above a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34977,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34974\/revisions\/34977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}