Sounds great, Moose.
We are on a break in Wales, staying in. strange little cottage next to
the Brecon-Monmouth canal. Yesterday, while driving along a very
narrow lane flanked with high hedges, a Greater Spotted Woodpecker
flew out in front for a few seconds before alighting on a telegraph
pole. We stopped a watched, in wonder on my part as I had never seen
one in the wild before. I didn't attempt to get my camera out of the
back …
Chris
On Tuesday, 21 June 2011, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/14/2011 12:09 PM, Bob Whitmire
>
> Between some serious 'just hangin'" time, visits to both groves of giant
> sequoias (one v. easy, one fairly strenuous)
> and visits to a pretty cavern and an old gold rush era town/park, we found
> our time very pleasantly filled. Perfect
> weather and almost no mosquitoes!
>
> Most spectacular sighting, a pileated woodpecker. I saw a woodpecker fly down
> behind a tree just behind where Carol was
> sitting and told her to quietly turn her head. Her eyes got big; a pileated
> woodpecker not more than 6 feet away, right
> at her eye level. I couldn't see it then. It flew out onto a fallen tree
> across the little creek, so I got a good look
> 12-15 feet away, but it proved to be camera shy, leaving as soon as I started
> to raise the camera.
>
> Backlog of posts down to about half of the 200+ I came home to - still wading.
>
>
>
>
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