While hiking the trail along the shoreline about a mile from Cooper Creek
reservoir dam, we watched an adult Pileated Woodpecker feed a juvenile. The
young bird flew to a tree with the adult, was fed, and flew off following the
adult bird.
The young Pileated had no white on its face or neck, just a dark bird with a
rusty crest from bill to nape, and size close to the adult. I'd never seen one
before.
Here's a checklist with this detail: "Adult bright red crest, juvenile rusty
red-brown crest with no white on head. Both flew in onto young Douglas Fir 12"
bole, Adult fed Juvenile by inserting beak into Juvenile beak, then both flew
North across reservoir." Mikeal Jones
http://ebird.org/ebird/pnw/view/checklist?subID=S24004407
Mikeal Jones
826 SE Brockway Ave
Roseburg OR 97470
(541) 673-1859
mikealjones@xxxxxxxxxxx
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