bitterntwisted
Graham Howard Shortt
I never heard of Deacon Blue .
Went IBWO searching in a boat called "Dignity". Sank, inevitably.
Ricky Ross (It's all linked, you see)
I never heard of Deacon Blue .
I'm under the impression that many of the contributors here used to be in environmental or natural resources positions but left for more money in the corporate tool arena. Is that impression correct?
I'm under the impression that many of the contributors here used to be in environmental or natural resources positions but left for more money in the corporate tool arena. Is that impression correct?
According to Birdwatch there is an article in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology claiming that the double raps are perhaps being confused with the wing collisions of Gadwall.
http://birdwatchmagazine.blogspot.com/2007/06/another-nail-in-coffin-for-ivory-billed.html
What do you make of this?
Can someone annotate the pic to tell me what I'm looking at! Stuck in a foreign country squinting at a lap top screen!
Based on known sizes of Red-headed woodpeckers, I’d say that hole exceeds or approaches closely the kind of size, supposedly ruling out Pileated. I just wanted to show that even small woodpeckers use big holes. I suppose there’s no guarantee the red-headed in the photo made that hole, but if their happy to use them, surely they’d be happy to make them.
By the way, the id is spot on and no doubt about it.
Hope this helps Jane...
Tim
....Edit: also the only remote camera photo I could track down of a woodpecker around one of the more "promising holes". Both Cornell and Auburn, seem to be ominously quiet about what they capture around those holes.
Hope this helps Jane...
Tim
I was waiting for that one. No of course I can't prove the hole wasn't made by an IBWO and being used by the red-headed in the photo, but when we start seeing other woodies around “promising" cavities, hearing ducks that sound like “promising” double-knocks, hearing deer that sound like "promising" kent calls and the Luneau video has been argued as convincingly to be a PIWO as an IBWO, irrespective of relative rarity, you really have to wonder what's left.I don't see how this follows Ilya. I have a pair of Titmice that are on their second clutch of nestlings in my Eastern Screech-owl box this year. They're (not "their") obviously quite happy to use the box with an opening that far exceeds the 1.125 inch opening generally recommended for this species, but I see no evidence that the same species using a bluebird box out back is prepared to excavate the opening to the 5.75 inch square opening of the screech owl box. On what do we base the statement "surely they'd be happy to make them"?
By the way, the id is spot on and no doubt about it.
I was waiting for that one. No of course I can't prove the hole wasn't made by an IBWO and being used by the red-headed in the photo, but when we start seeing other woodies around “promising cavities”, hearing ducks that sound like “promising” double-knocks, hearing deer that sound like "promising" kent calls and the Luneau video has been argued as convincingly to be a PIWO as an IBWO, irrespective of relative rarity, you really have to wonder what's left.