Pileated Woodpecker in Aurora...

 

Photos by BarrytheBirder

I'ts not often I get to see Pileated Woodpeckers where I live, in the winter, much less take photos of them.   In this case I must apologize for the poor quality of the photo above; though taken with a telephoto lens, it was too far away to get a good shot.   My daughter Allison spotted this big woodpecker on the old Elderberry Farm property in south Aurora, west of Yonge Street.

The much better photo, at right, was taken elsewhere, on another occasion.

For the record, Pileateds are almost the size of crows.

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