Great shots. Love the Pileated shot -- I'm envious! He looks like he's either waving to you, or he's hiding something under his left wing. The Red-breasted Sapsuckers are equally wonderful.
The Pileated is a Keystone Species. It roosts in cavities and if a cavity is not available the Pileated will excavate one. And that cavity eventually becomes available to other cavity nesters that are incapable of excavating cavities.
Whenever I’m in the woods and hear a Pileated call or see it’s undulating flight pass through the woods, I am reassured that there are at least a few dead or dying trees in the area.
To date, this is a species of Least Concern (LC); as the future years pass, foresters will be taught to leave areas of dead/dying trees for the cavity nesters.
Please open the following link to see the list of 27 species that depend on the Pileated for cavities. Not one of these species can excavate its own cavity.
Right around now, they'd take up hammering my house at dawn. Great wake up alarm.
bs kite wrote:
Good shots and the Pileated image is superb!
The Pileated is a Keystone Species. It roosts in cavities and if a cavity is not available the Pileated will excavate one. And that cavity eventually becomes available to other cavity nesters that are incapable of excavating cavities.
Whenever I’m in the woods and hear a Pileated call or see it’s undulating flight pass through the woods, I am reassured that there are at least a few dead or dying trees in the area.
To date, this is a species of Least Concern (LC); as the future years pass, foresters will be taught to leave areas of dead/dying trees for the cavity nesters.
Please open the following link to see the list of 27 species that depend on the Pileated for cavities. Not one of these species can excavate its own cavity.
bs kite wrote:
Good shots and the Pileated image is superb!
The Pileated is a Keystone Species. It roosts in cavities and if a cavity is not available the Pileated will excavate one. And that cavity eventually becomes available to other cavity nesters that are incapable of excavating cavities.
Whenever I’m in the woods and hear a Pileated call or see it’s undulating flight pass through the woods, I am reassured that there are at least a few dead or dying trees in the area.
To date, this is a species of Least Concern (LC); as the future years pass, foresters will be taught to leave areas of dead/dying trees for the cavity nesters.
Please open the following link to see the list of 27 species that depend on the Pileated for cavities. Not one of these species can excavate its own cavity.
The Red-breasted Sapsuckers are equally wonderful.