[mou] FYI.. Ivory-Billed Woodpecker ??

[Kimerly J Wilcox]

We have them (pileated) coming to the suet feeders in our backyard year
round.  We don't always see them every day, but then we aren't always
here/looking.

Kim Wilcox
Otsego, MN
Wright Co.

On 17 Mar 2005, Chuck Cole wrote:
> I just dropped in..  more of a wildlife photographer than a birder per
se,
> but..
> 
> I lived near Orlando FL until moving here in '86.  Ivory-Billed
Woodpeckers
> lived in a tall tree in a city park (Kraft Azalea Park)
> on Lake Maitland.  I tried photographing them several times, but the only
> decent vantage point was on my small boat out in the lake,
> so I could not use my long lenses effectively.  I do/did have some crummy
> photos from about 1980, however.
> 
> Recently was curious whether they are ever here, and found the notice
that
> the Ivory-Billed has not been sighted anywhere since
> 1960.  I think the pileated has, however.  Called the park superintendent
> yesterday to inquire: he says he saw them yearly as
> recently as last year, but that storm damage has downed some of their
trees
> and he hasn't had opportunity to look this year.
> 
> I think these reports may be in error, because I saw the so-called
extinct
> Florida Panther regularly c1984 and it was officially
> discovered "not extinct" a year or so later after some friends and I
reported
> some easily verifiable sighting locations and times to
> the Game & Fish Department (FL equiv of DNR).
> 
> I doubt the Ivory-Billed would be this far North, but is the pileated
> woodpecker seen around here?
> 
> Chuck
>   Dakota County - AV
> 
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