Participant Photo: Pileated Silhouettes

A 7:00 a.m. sighting from my kitchen window. Four pileated woodpeckers landed in the sumac tree close to my feeders. I had seen one in the tree the day before, munching away at the seed heads, and I had my eye out for more. But it was the flight activity and landings of the four birds that drew my attention to the tree first thing in the morning. I was able to snap a back-lit photo of three of the birds—the fourth is in the next tree over, out of the picture. Very exciting observation for me!