The Woodpecker

The morning of Friday I went outside to my truck and heard a very loud sound coming from the woods. I soon realized what this sound was, it was a Pileated Woodpecker. This woodpecker is the largest in Canada. The sound is a very loud yucka-yucka-yucka-yucka that travels great distances through the woods. Since I realized what this creature was, I went back inside my house to get my iPod and speakers. The reason I got these 2 items and brought them outside was because my iPod had bird calls on it. So when I played the Pileated Woodpecker the sound from the iPod speakers making it sound like I was a bird. This would then make the Pileated Woodpecker come near me and let me take some pics of it with my camera.The woodpecker would fly from tree to tree communicating to the sound coming out of the speaker thinking that the sound was from an actual woodpecker . I stayed outside for about an hour taking pics of this bird, but I then decided that I had enough pics of the bird and went inside to warm my frozen hands. After I went inside I didnt find the woodpecker again that day.



This was a pic that I had
taken in the early morning
of the red headed, black
bodied Pileated Woodpecker.