> In article
> <%%L9xk.31011$Mh5.20493@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Karen
> says...

>>
>> "Jose Gaspar" newsguy.com> wrote in message
>>

>>>
>>> About 10 minutes ago there was a pileated woodpecker sitting in the
>>> early morning sunshine on a branch of a live oak tree in my front
>>> yard. Now, THEY are impressive! That's only the second one I've
>>> seen this summer...

>>
>> I've never seen one! How about taking a picture of the next one you
>> see?
>>
>> Karen

>
> Birds are most difficult to photograph but I could have gotten a pic
> of this one had I had a camera ready. I saw him through my den
> window and then went outside. He was a beauty. Very big so I assume
> he was a he... you can certainly see the influence he had on the
> early Woody Woodpecker cartoons...