Singing Pileated Woodpecker Conroe Texas

Often shy, we were so lucky to catch this big bird in our backyard last week (March 2010). Last year, we caught him eating from our feeders. Didn't get the chance to put much out for him yet this year, hopefully he'll come back when we do! Update (April 2010)...he came back!

[@brendaisajiw3417]

Here in Northern Wisconsin these gorgeous birds land on my deck and eat the suet I put out. They never cease to amaze me. I love them!

[@thebirdbashchannel103]

I love their hairdos.

[@1969CampEvans]

The singing or " squalling" can be heard over a large radius in or around a river or creek.....Amazing birds with a long wing span. I had the privilege of having a male to be a close neighbor during the winter cycle. He taught me a lot.....he was very punctual everyday. He roosted in a hollowed BALD CYPRESS TREE ( it was a young tree maybe 150 years of age) always arriving to his winter lair at 5pm E.S.T. If the weather turned cold with a threat of sleet or snow he would check in earlier.....he was no idiot. 😎😎😎 Cold winter days were hard on him and once he went on the roost at days end ...he was done. When the first light of a new day began he was on the hunt !!! I enjoyed hearing from him ....he provided much entertainment ....such a strong voice . When the Spring time arrived he moved on in pursuit of love and affection. I was so in hopes that he would return when the fall was ushered back in but that was not the case. Never did I have him for a neighbor again. The hollowed out hole that he accessed ( the front and only door) for his bachelor's pad was about 15 ft above the river cove. The Bald Cypress was surrounded by water......I was amazed that he could fit that big ass of his in that small of a diameter. The opening was perfect ...located on South side of the cypress. Incredible birds....enjoy hearing him especially when he got "cranked up" !!!!!😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎 THE male will have a little red mustache ......the female is missing this identification mark.

[@brendah.8201]

Wow, nice story. Thanks for the ID info. It's funny how we wait year after year for our special birds to come back.

[@lynnewilliams2599]

Did you offer food?

[@Horseservant]

I saw 2 yesterday while walking in some woods. They were vocalizing to each other in a sound I have never heard before. It was like a soft deep mew. It sounded very tender. This is an excellent video!

[@j.b.335]

The camera does no justice as to how beautiful and how big these birds really are .. they are literally as big as a crow

[@jeffburrell2986]

We have a couple of them feeding from suets in our back yard. they are amazing birds, when i see one i freeze and watch til they fly away! Cherokee Village AR.

[@jeffreydubinsky6718]

Love these birds. I smile every time I hear them. It makes me happy just knowing they are around. Great video BTW

[@stvbrsn]

Stunning little dinosaur!

[@adventuretimefiona1]

Saw one here in our backyard yesterday, I am in Savannah, GA. Beautiful bird!

[@joseantonio2417]

Qual é o seu pais?

[@nyc2alb]

Saw one today pecking at a piece of stump in the yard…..here in the Heldbeberg Hills of Altamont, NY. So cool!

[@joseantonio2417]

Que lindo . 🙏 beautiful BRASIL.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Wow, what a treat! I once saw a mama feed her baby on a nearby tree. I wish I had THAT on video!

[@adamchapman3358]

I just heard this in Chicago land forest preserve the other day. I instantly new it wasn't a local. Love this bird. Reminds me of the cartoon from the 1980s.

[@johnnyrotten52]

Thanks for the reply. FYI I was using a square spray lawn sprinkler when the one I saw showed up along with other birds that wanted to splash in the puddles.

[@juliawalsh7934]

This is amazing video! Reminds me of the Ivory-Bill Woodpecker I saw, in 2009. It had white stripes down the tips of each wing and only made one loud sound, not stacatto like this woodpecker.

[@valerijackson-close6751]

These birds are so amazing - I've seen quite a few up here in Vancouver BC [cedar forest] - I tried taking a picture of a very large 1 recently but he kept hiding from me then he would peek around the corner to see if I was still there with him.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Thank you. My husband shot this video from inside the house, but put a microphone outside.

[@Falcon_modernmusichater-yq6lz]

This is one bird I don't see where I live very often, so seeing this video was fun to watch.

[@jaraki]

amazing.. thanks for sharing this!

[@FanastyArtist2]

I can hear a mourning dove in the background of the video, which is amazing.

[@aloisleon6918]

This class.of videos.make me happy...thanks for show us

[@cocokitten4342]

You're welcome!

[@rosieasmrwhispererzephier7021]

It's Woody my favorite cartoon Woodpecker lol

[@lfader]

GUESS WHO ??? 💖

[@alabhaois]

They are sooo magnificent!!

[@bricortezbackman]

What a beautiful cutie

[@mh605]

Wow, wonderful! I love pileateds. Here, one likes to eat suet from our feeder. They also like peanuts. You could try those. Cartoon character Woody Woodpecker was based on the pileated woodpecker.

[@adventuretimefiona1]

We were seeing humming birds a few weeks ago, not now, not sure where they went. When we lived up in North GA, we had between 15-20 hummingbirds on the feeders and in line for the feeders at any given time. It was amazing.

[@stevegreedo5687]

It's like he's firing an invisible laser blaster out of his beak. "pew... pew pew... pew.... pew pew pew pew pew pew pew..."

[@RockynRalphie]

So glad to have found this video! Could not identify this call in my Northeastern Ohio backyard (woods). I thought it was probably a woodpecker and now I know what kind.

[@mahmoodismail9449]

Glory to God, this is God's creation

[@davidbrown8763]

So are house flies, mosquitoes, cancer and disease - if your God exists. So, glory to God for those?

[@josephfoster3819]

i just saw two of these outside my house they are awesome

[@scottyg.4199]

We have the beautiful Pileated woodpeckers in east Texas around Beaumont. They are also called Indian Hens, probably because one of their calls sounds like a chicken hen cackling after laying an egg.

[@joseantonio2417]

Beautiful, lindo lindo beautiful, temos muitos picapaus nas flórestas de meu pais, BRASIL.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Thanks Tex!!!!!!!!!!!! Super cool bird. :)

[@laurajordon824]

They nest in my yard (woods ) in the NC mountains. One of them drums every dawn & dusk on a dead tree in the yard.

[@ranns160]

Funny in every language. 😂👍

[@MultiPetercool]

We had an nesting pair in our backyard the number of years ago they’re absolutely magnificent

[@thecurator8478]

The pileated woodpecker csll is supposed to sound like woody's laugh because that's what type of woodpecker he is

[@TopGunWgHs]

Awesome capture my friend!

[@sweetefelicity]

What a treat that you caught him on video! We've only seen a couple of them, and they were too far away to photograph.

[@whazzuphere]

I live in Arizona. We have Gila Woodpeckers. He sounds the same as them.

[@michelecassaro8139]

Hahahaha! I SO love them! :)

[@djtj5527]

The Pileated woodpecker almost looks like the Ivory billed woodpecker, except the Pileated woodpecker's smaller. He's a very cute bird and listening to his sound and the other birds in the background is very relaxing. Thanks for the video! 😉

[@snakeeyes9246]

Thomas Evans the Ivory-billed is also extinct.

[@djtj5527]

Snake Eyes A lot of people think they have seen the Ivory-billed woodpecker, but yeah, it is declared extinct. It was rediscovered at one point, after being declared extinct before, but it was declared extinct again.

[@Horseservant]

I know what you mean. Those experiences that I can't share are kept close my heart. Native Americans call it good medicine.

[@paulbrown1585]

Love that goofy bird..

[@godzilla6109]

I like that red color hair

[@PeterD87]

All the birds in the background sound exactly the same as up here in Ottawa, especially the dove!

[@pureimaginationvideo]

YEAH, OUR PILEATED'S BACK! I put out raw peanuts along with the suet. I think the big guy must have smelled it from afar and decided to drop down. :) But I'm really upset about the hummingbirds. Every year at this time, they would be fighting to feed. We saw one or two in April and that's it! I know they have their flowers to drink from. I'm hoping they come back in the early fall before they migrate back to Mexico. I'm still guessing last year's drought had an affect on them. :(

[@400hpmustang]

Trying to capture these in the wild is difficult, as they are timid and will fly away when you get close. I've found the only way to film or shoot them is to be already in-place ready to go. I've seen them in and around a swamp with loads of standing dead trees. Some appear to be all of 20" in length. Awesome species :) Nice video.

[@kennyc388]

I tried to find these birds in the remaining ancient forest areas of my Oregon but never have seen one. I understand they prefer very old wood for their excavations of a nest.

[@1956tojo]

I have noticed through the decades (first when I was about 5-6 years old) that these Kings of the woodpeckers have at least 2 very definite pattern calls they will do besides the regular sounding off they do... I have 2 that regularly visit my feeders mostly later fall into mid spring at both my Illinois feeders and down in the Missouri Ozarks where so far I have only seen one at a time.... The most I have ever seen at one time was 4 about a decade ago... 2 regulars and they were accompanied by 2 others about 3/4 full grown... I'm guessing it was a Mom n Dad and the kids, but I never actually confirmed that... Then again I know for a fact I've had to have fed multiple generations due to them living a (rare) maximum of about 13 years..... I enjoy all the different species of woodpeckers...

[@peachfuds]

Just saw one of these beauties at my house

[@user-wm4je4ct8y]

He's soo cute!

[@rhbramley687]

We used to have a lot of these "woodies" when I was a kid in S.W. Florida. Mean bastards lol. But alas, we don't them very often any more.

[@lachlanmacarthur8992]

Amazing animal. A living dinosaur.

[@terrance3218]

LachyM8!!!!!! Funny you would say that since they're considered living fossils.

[@deb3710]

Beautiful! 🖤♥️

[@pureimaginationvideo]

They love the Bark's Butter I get from Wild Birds Unlimited. You should buy a tub of that and give it a try! :)

[@xxxonaga42oblzditxxx]

wow! That mourning dove and those other birds are like in my yard in topeka

[@wildturkeyx5078]

their cluck cluck cluck!!! really does sound like they are freaked out chickens. haha.

[@billhamlin6697]

That Woodpecker is probably singing; If you're expecting a Show, sorry folks, I only peck White Burch, Walnut and Oak--- Bye, gotta Go, Winter is coming, don't like the Snow---- (Just for fun)

[@user-kb3nb5jd5k]

Great sounds ❤😂

[@1BlueStarRising]

Awesome Bird & Awesome Filming ! :-)

[@duckshaker]

Beautiful!!!

[@inachu]

I play this with my speaker to the window and they land on the window sill outside :-)

[@TheCreepyArchives]

Ah shit, yall got loons and woodpeckers down there? That's some shit. Signed a northern Michigan resident

[@danaparsons1990]

I have several around my house everyday💜

[@jaylenebarton4043]

GOT A MOHAWK GOING!!! HA HAA!!!!!!

[@joseantonio2417]

Beautiful, vai picando sem parar , eu sempre vou a floresta , para ouvir ele cantar. Ainda existe muitos picapaus , nas matas nos campos , cerrados e floréstas do meu BRASIL. Parabens . Lindo lindo beautiful. Desde BRASIL.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

My folks lived around New Bern area and I saw and heard the Pileated Woodpeckers there too.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Thanks drelkeps! LOL! But don't tell my husband who's a 15+ year news videographer that he's amateur! ;)

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Anywhere you see pines, you'll probably get these guys. I grew up in Long Island and don't remember seeing them there. I get them here in Houston-I got a lot of pines! :) Congrats! Make sure to get your suet feeders out for them! :)

[@smokeynedith3555]

It had a rough start in the beginning but he finally got his motorcycle going.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Thanks! :) I put out the, "Delite No Melt" suet-peanut flavor. You can get this at Petsmart or Petco. I also us a suet holder that has tail prop on it. It's longer so the big guy can eat off of it. I bought mine at World Birds Unlimited. You can also go to Duncraft's website and type in suet feeder. Try to put it on one of those shepard's poles, or those pesky squierrels will eat it in less than a day! Still no Pileated this year. :( Last year's drought really sent my birds away.

[@mh605]

Put suet out for him. As with all woodpeckers, Pileateds like suet.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

they like wood worms more than beef fat.

[@jones10395]

Haha thank you, I sure will.

[@lamalkremi4420]

GOOD AND ACTIV BARED😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@AuntyGoogol]

Now I know what they really sound like.

[@user-yb3rg1oy4m]

Красавчик! Он удивительный! ❤️

[@pureimaginationvideo]

I hope the little guy pulls through!

[@natrone23]

I would see them in Florida.

[@WanderingSoleTV]

Incredible footage!

[@peterjohnson617]

great looking male

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Sure was. I miss them though. Last year's drought was hard on our birds. My neighbors also didn't water much and chopped a lot of tall pines. :(

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Yup, my birds love the sprinkler too. :)

[@TdotSoul]

I hear them relatively often in Ontario, and see them occasionally.. I don't know why you wouldn't see them in Oregon, I'm pretty sure there are more and older forests there than here.

[@terrance3218]

TdotSoul They're more than likely there. I've only seen red-bellied woodpeckers in my neighborhood in Louisiana but I eventually saw a hairy, some downy woodpeckers, a northern flicker and now I can hear a pileated that must have moved in.

[@tomitstube]

just heard call that about an hour ago, didn't see anything, probably my mocking bird messing with me.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

I think it's full grown!

[@jn2898]

I have heard of pileated woodpecker but never heard of a texas pileated woodpecker

[@pureimaginationvideo]

One that lives in Texas. LOL

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Oooh!!!! I hope you find the mama. They are rather loud. But I noticed that a Red Bellied Woodpecker makes a similar sound. Good luck!!!

[@lolgaming1254]

aww it's sooo cute!

[@geekbaritone]

I think this is the one their tongue wraps around their head.

[@xxxonaga42oblzditxxx]

this footage is so hard to get nice job my friend

[@laurieturner5478]

Rayman:huphuphuphuphuphuphup me:🙊

[@vincntblakshadow]

I actually have two in my yard in Florida, they'll let me get quite close if they are feeding.

[@The1824Username]

I've seen this woodpecker in Indiana.

[@adventuretimefiona1]

Saw him again yesterday afternoon, he must have a nest somewhere close.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

We were surely lucky! :)

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Thanks!

[@pureimaginationvideo]

Wow, lucky you! We had a historically bad drought in Houston last year and I have yet to see my pileated woodpeckers. :( So far, only the red bellied and red heads have been around.

[@Psalm146-2]

There is one that comes to the same tree behind my house every day and does that for like 5 minutes. I can’t see it clearly but it’s really loud. Must be staking out it’s territory.

[@pureimaginationvideo]

@jaraki I miss my pleated. Haven't seen him in months. :(

[@sunshinedaydream1954]

perfect

[@pureimaginationvideo]

I can't wait to see mine again. Not a good year for birds. I'm usually getting attacked by hummers and nothing this year! :(