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Pileated Woodpecker

Posted by Emmons Whited ,
North Country explorer from South Portland, Maine
October 31, 2026 —

I heard this pileated woodpecker calling, and then watched it fly into a stand of trees where it settled up high at an existing hole in the trunk and continued to chip away.