{"id":8819,"date":"2021-07-21T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2021-07-21T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:25:32","slug":"pileated-2020-07-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/pileated-2020-07-20.html","title":{"rendered":"Pileated 2020-07-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nI heard a thwacking sound, looked up from the porch desk, and two\r\npileated woodpeckers were on two, then one, pine tree.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Two pileated woodpeckers on a pine tree\" name=\"WP:Two-pileated-woodpeckers-on-a-pine-tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-07-20--pileated\/pileateds.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-07-20--pileated\/pileateds.jpg\"  alt=\"[Two pileated woodpeckers on a pine tree]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-07-20--pileated\/pileateds.html\">Two pileated woodpeckers on a pine tree<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe crosshatching is the porch screen wire.\r\n<p>\r\nThese\r\n<em>Dryocopus pileatus<\/em>\r\nhang around here all the time, but they don&#8217;t usually come that close.\r\nThat pine tree stob is about twenty feet outside the screen,\r\nor thirty (ten meters) from where I was sitting.\r\n<p>\r\nEventually they flew off laughing, like they do.\r\n<p>\r\nPileated woodpeckers mate for life, which would explain why this pair has been here a long time.\r\n<p>\r\nDon&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s always been the same pair, since we&#8217;ve been seeing them more than a decade, and apparently the oldest know was less than thirteen years old.\r\n<p>\r\nA pair of pileateds wants more than a hundred acres of territory,\r\nso they should be very happy here.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","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&#8217;t usually come that close. That pine tree [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"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"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2if","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_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}]}}