Sighting

Saw a Pileated Woodpecker yesterday. We hear them quite a bit, but rarely see them (last one I saw was at least 7 years ago).

• If I hadn't had to wait for the truck service for two hours
• If I hadn't had to do blankets and stuff at the laundry mat
• If I hadn't come home and gotten more quarters and the load I had washed at home
• If I hadn't turned around 1/2 way up the road to get a book to read while waiting for the laundry
• If the turkey hadn't been attempting to cross the road when I rounded the corner
• If I hadn't looked around to see if there were more turkeys

I would have missed the Pileated. Quite a bit of stuff had to happen to juxtapose our being in the right places at the right time.

Comments

[Cop Car]

Isn't it nice how the universe caludes with us at times, instead of against us?! Great sighting.

Here in Kansas, I heard the first house wren of the year when I gathered in the paper this morning. Eastern Phoebe came in the day after your birthday and the Myrtle warblers a bit over a week earlier than that (on which day I saw our first Hairy woodpecker in several months or a year). A Hairy woodpecker doesn't much compare with a Pileated, but we're not apt to see the big P around here any year soon.

[Cop Car]

Isn't it nice how the universe colludes with us at times, instead of against us?! Great sighting.

Here in Kansas, I heard the first house wren of the year when I gathered in the paper this morning. Eastern Phoebe came in the day after your birthday and the Myrtle warblers a bit over a week earlier than that (on which day I saw our first Hairy woodpecker in several months or a year). A Hairy woodpecker doesn't much compare with a Pileated, but we're not apt to see the big P around here any year soon.

[bogie]

We have plenty of Downey's and Hairy's, just don'e see anything else very often (and, not much else has a home range in this area besides the pileated and an occasional re-bellied).

And, we really pale in comparison with you guys in other birds (especially the hummers).