They certainly are a very cool bird to be together with. The rough bark shredding feet and the raw muscle makes for a experience.Pileated
I think I've posted photos of these before.
female, on sumac
two pileateds
bad photo of a cool sight: a pileated (looks to be a female, too) on the wing.
We do get males but for some reason I've gotten few if any photos of 'em.
That lower 'stripe' on the face of males is red; black on females -- as shown in the Audubon(?) litho posted by @Doodski above.
wow, That was a good move, 6 months in Goa. She looks like a very intelligent dog.Lila, Our beach dog we kinda adopted when we rented a bungalow for 6 months in Anjuna, Goa - when we left the country we made sure she had a good home with folk that genuinely wanted her, Samar from a beach bar/restaurant called “San Francisco” - she had a good life and her own specially built seat at the bar.
I really need a holiday...maybe some less busy place in Goa or Maharashtra.
At the airport, arrived from Mumbai. Narcotics unit dog, it wanted these 2 women's luggage to be opened.
When I was 3-4 years old, my two friends Power and Bobby had a tractor.I like tractors.
All of them.
Big, small, old, new.
All my neighbors have tractors.
No, really.
All of them.
I am envious.