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Re: Pileated Update



Yes, Juan, I went with my husband on Sat. and waited
for almost an hour. Just saw two fledglings, one very
intensely looking for food.
Then came back in the afternoon, and finally after
waiting 30 minutes saw the male come to feed two
female and one male baby!!!!
Awesome sighting, Thanks so much to Dawn and Cynthia
as well!
Kate

--- "Juan A. Pons" <jpons@wildnaturephoto.com> wrote:
> 
> As some of you had seen some of my photos from the
> pileated nest, I
> tough you may also be interested in getting an
> update.
> 
> My first trip to see the woodpeckers was on Thu May
> 15th, this is the
> day I took the pictures that I posted. I also
> printed two of these and
> gave them to Cynthia Fox at the Wild Bird Center in
> Chapel Hill, she
> posted them near the cash register for people to
> see.
> 
> The pictures that I took, only show two chicks, and
> both females.
> However there were 3 chicks, one male and 2 female.
> Rick Albretch was
> furtunate enough to have captured all 3 chicks on
> one of his trips to
> photograph them. He has also given 2 prints to
> Cynthia and they are
> posted there as well.
> 
> Over the next few days I visited about 6 times and
> was able to see the
> male and female feeding the young. Progressively the
> chicks got
> aggresive with the parent and seemed eager to get
> out on their own.
> However we had some pretty heavy overcast days, and
> there was not enough
> light really to take any other good pictures.
> 
> I went to visit again last evening (Mon May 19th)
> and I spent about 1.5
> hours with Dawn (the one who alerted us to this
> great find) and we
> watched the chicks and parents for quite a while.
> 
> What was very interesting about this evening is that
> while we saw the
> male come a feed the chicks once or twice, when the
> female came the
> chicks retreated back into the nest and kept very
> quiet. Then the male
> and female proceeded to have a pretty spririted
> series of "fights" where
> they tumbled down from the surrounding trees and
> they seemed to peck and
> grab at each other. We observed this happening 3
> times. From this point
> on the chicks never came out again that evening.
> 
> This morning I went over with the promise of more
> light to take some
> more photos, but the chicks where gone. It seems
> that they all fledged
> very eary this morning. I heard them in the distance
> on a few ocassions.
> 
> Interestingly, I saw a pair of c. wrens going in and
> out of the pileated
> nest... seems that they were scoping out a new nest
> site.
> 
> Hope you found this update of interest.
> 
> -J
> 
> -- 
> Juan A. Pons
> jpons@wildnaturephoto.com
> http://www.wildnaturephoto.com/
> Pittsboro, NC
> 
> 


=====
Kate Finlayson
N. Chatham Co.,N.C.
katefin@yahoo.com

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