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Two pileated woodpeckers on a pine tree<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\nThe crosshatching is the porch screen wire.<\/p>\n
\nThese \nEventually they flew off laughing, like they do.<\/p>\n \nPileated woodpeckers mate for life, which would explain why this pair has been here a long time.<\/p>\n \nDon’t know if it’s always been the same pair, since we’ve been seeing them more than a decade, and apparently the oldest know was less than thirteen years old.<\/p>\n \nA pair of pileateds wants more than a hundred acres of territory, \n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I heard a thwacking sound, looked up from the porch desk, and two pileated woodpeckers were on two, then one, pine tree. Two pileated woodpeckers on a pine tree The crosshatching is the porch screen wire. These Dryocopus pileatus hang around here all the time, but they don’t usually come that close. That pine tree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,6],"tags":[2781,700,3,5,2,2760,3248,699,432,431],"class_list":["post-8819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-okra-paradise-farms","tag-birds","tag-dryocopus-pileatus","tag-georgia","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-pileated","tag-pileated-woodpecker","tag-pinus-elliottii","tag-slash-pine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8820,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDryocopus pileatus<\/em>
\nhang around here all the time, but they don’t usually come that close.
\nThat pine tree stob is about twenty feet outside the screen,
\nor thirty (ten meters) from where I was sitting.<\/p>\n
\nso they should be very happy here.<\/p>\n