{"id":25009,"date":"2026-03-11T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25009"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:41:02","slug":"pileated-woodpecker-dryocopus-pileatus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25009","title":{"rendered":"Pileated Woodpecker (<em>Dryocopus pileatus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25012\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260311_029443a.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25012\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260311_029443a-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260311_029443a-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260311_029443a-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260311_029443a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260311_029443a-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260311_029443a.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pileated Woodpecker (<em>Dryocopus pileatus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy has started working with the county parks archaeology group this spring and they meet at the Needwood Mansion on Wednesdays. Today I met her there after they were done and we took a walk on the western side of Lake Needwood. We saw this pileated woodpecker (<em>Dryocopus pileatus<\/em>) briefly and I was able to get one shot before it flew away. Later we saw quite a few double-crested cormorants (<em>Nannopterum auritum<\/em>) diving and catching fish, but the photos I took of them didn&#8217;t really turn out well. It&#8217;s tricky because when the go under, there&#8217;s really no telling where they will come up. If I&#8217;m looking through the long lens, I&#8217;m liable to miss them but if I&#8217;m not, it takes me a little while to find them and focus and by that time, they&#8217;ve generally swallowed the fish. Disclaimer: This image was a little blurry but I had Google Gemini sharpen it up for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy has started working with the county parks archaeology group this spring and they meet at the Needwood Mansion on Wednesdays. Today I met her there after they were done and we took a walk on the western side of Lake Needwood. We saw this pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) briefly and I was able to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25009\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[61,624,623,3305,2761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25013,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009\/revisions\/25013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}