Pileated Woodpecker - video of 64 seconds - by Tom Christiano - June 28th 2024

I was sitting in my recliner yesterday, at around 7:00 PM, when I was thrilled to see three Pileated Woodpeckers just 20 feet in front of me! I grabbed my camera and shot many photos - and two videos - of them pecking away on my white birch tree and on a maple tree.
I haven't seen a pileated woodpecker in my yard in a few years, so this was amazing.
Here's some information about Pileated Woodpeckers from Wikipedia:
"The pileated woodpecker is a large, mostly black woodpecker native to North America. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific Coast. It is the largest confirmed extant woodpecker species in North America, with the possible exception of the ivory-billed woodpecker, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed be reclassified as extinct. It is also the third largest species of woodpecker in the world, after the great slaty woodpecker and the black woodpecker. "Pileated" refers to the bird's prominent red crest, from the Latin pileatus meaning "capped"."