Pileated Working the Underside II
by Dawn Currie
Title
Pileated Working the Underside II
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Wildlife photograph by Dawn Currie. A solitary Pileated Woodpecker working a dead branch of a pine tree in Wichkam Park, Melbourne, FL.
The Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) food is primarily carpenter ants, supplemented by other ants, woodboring beetle larvae, termites, and other insects such as flies, spruce budworm, caterpillars, cockroaches, and grasshoppers. They also eat wild fruits and nuts, including greenbrier, hackberry, sassafrass, blackberries, sumac berries, poison ivy, holly, dogwood, persimmon, and elderberry. In some diet studies, ants constituted 40 percent of the diet, and up to 97 percent in some individuals. Occasionally, Pileated Woodpeckers visit backyard bird feeders for seeds or suet.
If you have dead or dying trees or snags on your property, consider leaving them alone as they may attract Pileated Woodpeckers (as well as other woodpeckers, nuthatches, etc.) to forage, roost or even nest in them.
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October 6th, 2020
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Comments (9)
Morris Finkelstein
Fabulous close up photograph of a Pileated Woodpecker drilling into a branch, with great colors, perspective, and composition, Dawn! Beautiful series of photos! F/L
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Birds In Focus" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Lynne Pedlar
What a lovely capture! The detail is wonderful and the composition with the palm fronds flaring out from behind frame him perfectly!