Woodpecker meets Chipmunk..

[@SuzanneGaiasKindredSpirit]

Wow...Pily seems fascinated by Chippy, who's just going about his thing and then letting him know about a little social distancing...😜🤣 Such an amazing and unique moment in time!!! You are so lucky D&J to have witnessed this and thank you so much for sharing 🤗

[@vickylombardi7908]

So delightful ..... 🙃The woodpecker is so curious about the chipmunk, but all chippy cares about is foraging.

[@harveydecker6381]

Great meeting of fur and feather. Thanks

[@edwardgordon9731]

As many pileated woodpeckers as I have seen here in Florida, I have never seen any interaction with another animal. Mostly in groups of three, they are usually raising cane with each other. They love Brazilian Pepper trees but they are so much easier to watch in the big Live Oaks. This was such a pleasure to enjoy. Thank you for your hard work and diligence .

[@northernbettygirl]

He pecked that little chipmunk😯! All he's doing is foraging the suet that fell on the ground. You can almost tell what that woodpecker would be saying. Looks at the chipmunk, looks up at the feeder, looks back at the chipmunk, like "Hey! I didn't knock all that down for you to help yourself!" 😂

[@gybx4094]

Extremely rare Pileated behavioral footage.

[@terrance3218]

I love how he's torn between curiosity and hunger.

[@Chicken4War]

Woody meets Alvin

[@Chris-bf2yg]

😂

[@arlenefrossard8066]

What a beautiful woodpecker!!

[@tomarmstrong4761]

"What ARE you little brown furry critter? Are you tasty? Are you taking food away from me? Are you fierce?"

[@CharismaticPlanet3822]

wow, what a beauty this bird is.

[@kataisa3]

Curiosity is a sign of intelligence

[@cathythompson6872]

You have to admit - the chipmunk does resemble a great, big fat striped sunflower seed. :) Loved this!

[@Stafernisy]

Cathy Thompson looking like a sunflower seed or not, a woodpecker wouldn't mind fresh meat even if its a cute chipmunk. Probably tired of all the beetles and grubs.

[@judithzeid5504]

onemanarmy pileateds don't eat meat......just nuts and insects and sap in the spring if their food sources aren't available. I feed them woodpecker suet and they love it! It has lots of nuts......

[@onelovewhisperer]

I heard some loud knocking sounds and went out to investigate and their were 3 up on a dead branch out back!! I've never seen that many at once. Cool video thanks for sharing.

[@airwatching2]

great video, no worries about the shaking, the material is just great

[@flipsolo]

What an amazing lookin' bird! If it wasn't bald eagle (or wild turkey), I don't mind them being the national bird.

[@GinaHarmeyer]

Love this! I had 2 Pileated Woodpeckers (I think they were juveniles) in my yard yesterday! I also have many chipmunks! I love this interaction!!

[@dianesawyer1915]

Beautiful footage

[@tomitstube]

the golden mantled ground squirrel is like, "there's enough for everyone." pileated woodpecker is like, "we're a threatened species so show some respect."

[@tlsings55]

This is so cool that you caught this interaction!

[@dimidomo7946]

I'm late to the party but still this is a good upload; the interaction is so interesting. Appreciate there was no verbal input.

[@shyandmisty]

I'm a quiet person by nature.. no need to make noise unless a bear shows up.. then that's another story lol

[@wildturkeyx5078]

Pileated was like "hey what's up what are u wanna play...wait what are u eh eh??" Lol

[@rememberthesabbathdayexodu1185]

Amazing encounter... thanks for sharing.

[@hapichampagne5916]

He looks like he’s trying to tell it there’s more food on the tree lol. Chipmunks like leave me alone this is fine.

[@kelownagamermom]

What a great moment to capture on film. Lovely!

[@NatureInspiredSnipsnSnaps]

very cool capture, love when these woodpeckers come to the suet during our winter months here, never saw anything like it, great video.

[@Leitis_Fella]

Chipmunks are opportunistic carnivores, and I've read in at least one ornithology book that I own that chipmunks will go into birds' nest and eat their eggs and chicks on occasion. Probably why Mr. Pileated was not happy

[@dylanalexander1207]

amazing video. you are lucky to have captured this interaction.

[@49LivingtheDream]

My favorite woodpecker.

[@mm9374]

“Whatcha got there? Whatcha eatin’? *peck* “Bleah!! Seeds! Don’t you have any good bugs?”

[@ryancreson7115]

this is awesome! been trying to get a Pileated at my feeder. So far all ive got is downy woodpeckers. Keep up the good work.

[@karlsenula9495]

Uber Eats for woodpeckers 'Can I eats it???'. Suet = eats Chipmunk = no eats

[@wheeling827]

lol your so right!

[@hatake9211]

Woody Woodpecker Meets Alvin the chipmunk.

[@Athabina]

Woody Woodpecker must have been a Pileated :D

[@rogerdiogo6893]

John C. Woody woodpecker was a hybrid, since he had green eyes and a yellowish bill, and the Ivory bill woodpecker has sun bright yellow eyes, also I seen a Ivory bill, the red on the ivory bill is more like the roman red, while the pilliated red is more pinkish!!!

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@rogerdiogo6893 No you haven't seen.

[@eepanusstar5940]

Love this bird-one of my dads favorites too-thanks

[@stickshaker101]

Pretty sure it was sizing him up for a snack.

[@garyballard9167]

Nature is great.

[@sandygilpin5551]

I have never had the honor of seeing this gorgeous bird in person. I’m in south Jersey.

[@loneerv]

I saw one for the first time after 8 years of living in Pittsburgh! I thought a Raven or a crow flew into a tree. then I figured out what it was and I was like "holy sh**! they get that big?!?!" lol. I will say this... you will never forget the first time you see one of these. they are so beautiful.

[@birdfanboi]

Woody vs Alvin

[@SD.95]

Reminds me of Donald duck and Chip 'n Dale. 🦆🐿️

[@michelecassaro8139]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is so grand/hilarious/cute! I love the Pileateds! What a great video! :)

[@SheenaRea]

Awwww.... He just wants to be friends. 💚

[@b991228]

The bird is defending what he feels is his personal stash of suet. The chipmunk isn't going to back down to woodpecker, over-sized or otherwise.

[@therabbitswhisper]

ahhh....the power of flight

[@contessalouannec8064]

Dale the chipmunk asks woody the woodpecker have you seen chip my friend the chipmunk. Woody replies I don't know what does he look like. Dale says never mind. Great video thank you for taking the time to film it.

[@towhee89]

Chippy and woody!!!

[@neon_wolf3057]

Alvin and woody

[@justme1961]

That was so cool! Thank you for sharing it!

[@viniciuspaiva3578]

Woody Woodpecker meets Chip or Dale!

[@Phobiaph0bic]

I w a s l i t e r a l l y a b o u t t o s a y t h a t

[@brandonedwards7778]

“ nice stripes ”

[@neon_wolf3057]

Woody Woodpecker X Alvin and The Chipmunks

[@cleanserofnoobs4162]

A crossover of the ages

[@diannewalker1483]

What a great thing to see. I would love to be able to video a pileated woodpecker for this long. He is a beauty! Great job!

[@donnalazar4469]

That chipmunk got lucky. Woodpeckers actually peck at and eat chicks in their nest. It clearly was going to try to do that to the chipmunk.

[@chouchoumuse2729]

Yes, but chipmunks can do the same with eggs and baby birds. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXK8cqmAZamUbKc

[@SuzanneGaiasKindredSpirit]

The Pileated's diet doesn't include chicks (or Chipmunks) as per Cornell Lab Ornithology though...As an avid bird lover I'm very curious, if you would be so kind as to share where you get this fact from? Here's what it says about the Pileated's diet... The Pileated Woodpecker’s primary food is carpenter ants, supplemented by other ants, woodboring beetle larvae, termites, and other insects such as flies, spruce budworm, caterpillars, cockroaches, and grasshoppers. They also eat wild fruits and nuts, including greenbrier, hackberry, sassafrass, blackberries, sumac berries, poison ivy, holly, dogwood, persimmon, and elderberry. In some diet studies, ants constituted 40 percent of the diet, and up to 97 percent in some individuals. Occasionally, Pileated Woodpeckers visit backyard bird feeders for seeds or suet.

[@sstrick500]

Is that the chipmunk from the hawk video (that was being eaten and got up and ran away)? If so, its like "nah brah, I was almost eaten by 3 hawks. You don't scare me."

[@starpawsy]

As an Australian and thus essentiually totally ignorant of North American fauna, I had no idea that a woodpecker is so big, or a chipmunk so small.

[@Markiplierforreal]

Yeah woodpeckers are huge

[@eightinches3671]

And they don't just eat nuts and seeds. They also will invade a nest and eat baby birds that have just hatched.

[@theplanistowalk]

well this is a pileated woodpecker, which is the largest species in NA and the 3rd largest woodpecker in the world

[@stayput3522]

I love the little crow-like hop backwards at 1:05 ahaha

[@DianeBanks1]

woodpecker needs to watch a few youtube videos about SHARING with his chipmunk friend ;)

[@ardalla535]

Wow, I thought I was the only life form on this planet. Where did you come from?

[@goognamgoognw6637]

hahaha and how come you wearing stripes too.

[@WallyDWolf]

Awesome ! So cute ! ;-))

[@JackMustang]

Pileated meets Theodore!

[@jodiesutton7521]

Love it !!!🙂❤❤

[@ChimpFromSpace]

The Woodpecker seems to be quite the intelligent bird, doesn't it?

[@BertieW0oster]

Cute little critters. :)

[@ButterflyLucky]

Beautiful 😻

[@tomtalker2000]

If this Pileated wanted to it could have EASILY killed this chipmunk. There beak power is immense...!!! As i've seen them do some heavy damage with there beaks.

[@VandelayIndustries61]

Yeah, I'm thinking the pileated might have been conflicted thinking, "OK that would make a hell of a dinner but most of my prey isn't THAT big." Being cautious as is their nature. He definitely seemed to make a few passes at the chipmunk though, but bolted when sh*t got real. Remember that he knows he's got that suet cake up above that definitely isn't going to fight back.

[@annwithaplan9766]

Yup. I saw a woodpecker outside my window, at the base of the tree pecking and pecking at the ground. I could tell what it was until I got my zoom lens out and took pictures. It had killed another woodpecker and just kept pecking.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

chipmunks have incredible intelligence. Here is a bird that's as big as a predator bird but is only a bug eater. Chipmunks knows. But at the end the Woodpecker pinches the chipmunk's ear then pokes at the eye. That's when the chipmunk strikes back. Chipmunk like squirrels are foolhardy.

[@English_MoFo]

Definitely thinking about eating it. I saw one peck open a nest box and gulp down 4 chicks on a youtube channel.

[@TheSmidgeroonie]

That moment when the pileated looks down and sees a warm meal. For those that don't know woodpeckers Love brains. (do not search for it on KZbin it will upset you) Many will eat other birds, lizards, snakes, and it appears will try for a small chipmunk. Glad the little guy smartened up and got out of there.

[@terrance3218]

TheSmidgeroonie Yeah, I discovered that years ago and had no idea that most woodpeckers do this.

[@TheCanadiangirl4]

Yeah, it's way less cute now that I researched that. The worst part is the baby birds are still alive while the woodpeckers drill into their brains. My love of this bird has greatly reduced now.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@TheCanadiangirl4 if that can even your judgement, grey squirrel eat songbird hatchlings alive. There's a video of it as well (do not search for it, it looks like a zombie eating gore). Technically the chipmunk is a squirrel. But that's nature. Eating comes first. Humans fare no better, we are kind of hypocrites because we eat the meat that we didn't kill ourselves. This bird is no more cruel than we are, he does not have a slaughterhouse to do the killing and pack the meat for him. So dont judge him so harshly. Look at tiger killing a prey, or a cat killing critters. So please don't look down on this bird.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

The pileated only warned the munk not to eat his suet cake fallen nibbles. I don't think he saw the munk as food, but wanted to tell him politely to get out. The munk ignored him, so he used his chisel but only with a light touch blow. If you see how these birds can hit wood, it clearly did not use any of his tremendous force or could have knocked out the munk in a single blow.

[@davidandrew6347]

@@TheCanadiangirl4 that behavior is very rare. Woodpeckers for the most part do not go for much more than seeds nuts larva sap ect.

[@PlanetRockJesus]

What is this, Wild Kingdom?

[@JC-tz7mf]

Holy crap, this bird is the most friendly fuckin' thing I've ever seen.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

wow, you'd be ideal woodpecker prey if you think so. Just if you were the size of a chipmunk, you'd get eaten.

[@kalebglenn5279]

Hmm... can I eat it...

[@learninghowtodothis8062]

Fun video!

[@joseantonio2417]

LINDO LINDO BEAUTIFUL, existe muitos picapaus nos campos cerrados e florestas de meu lindo pais o BRASIL. Beautiful. Beautiful.

[@TOTALCAMARO]

That is funny 😅

[@rickroscoe4734]

2:20 Woodpecker: "I thought I told you to get outta here......Ahaaaa the little SOB attacked me."

[@redfox4561]

I hope they have many adventures together, anyone thinks a Chip Pecker could come from this fated meeting :D

[@ROBERT-rw8lf]

ALLLLLLLLLLLLLVIN ! ! ! !

[@natashateo1059]

Alvin and the Chipmunks (also the Chippettes) meets Woody Woodpecker

[@BobMeyers]

Great video, pileated is a marvelous bird isn't it? Watching this after seeing the new Jurassic World movie made me think how birds evolved from dinosaurs. What did you put in feeder? I just made a video but at 30 feet.

[@shyandmisty]

+Bob Meyers at the time I made this vid I was using store bought peanut suet cakes... I recently made my own and saw another visit our yard. a couple days ago the suet I made has rendered beef tallow, crunchy peanut butter, dried fruits, seed mix and a couple more ingredients. lots of recipes on the net.. just don't use lard that you buy in store to make pie crust. and I use seeds for my other feeders, all depend what I want to attract.

[@judithzeid5504]

D&J great video! We buy C&S woodpecker suet and they love it! Put their peanut suet in a tray and they all love it! Might try making some and see how it goes.

[@AvengerII]

I saw a woodpecker EXACTLY like this one in a metro park nearly 10 years ago. I was probably within 10 ft of it in the woods which is unusual. This was the only time I saw a woodpecker in that park but I saw snakes, toads, chipmunks, and squirrels many times. What the video doesn't capture is just how fake looking these birds appear in real life. The red is iridescent and their eyes have this weird glass quality. They just don't look like they should be living things, more like plastic statues. Next closest thing to this are wood ducks. "Fake" is the best way to describe them -- they're living but it doesn't seem like something like them should exist in real life.

[@AvengerII]

P.S. -- This is the bird Walter Lantz modeled Woody Woodpecker after, too.

[@jerryking45]

They're actually very high-tech drones from the United States government!

[@SuzanneGaiasKindredSpirit]

I have to say I really don't get your frame of thinking...Fake? That's the best you can come up with...Obviously not well versed in ornithology or a bird lover! The Pileated is very real obviously, and stunningly great looking! Maybe you're just jealous...😜🤣

[@AvengerII]

@@SuzanneGaiasKindredSpirit Did you get off your meds today? What ARE you on about? "Fake" = iridiscent glow; the feather colors seem unnatural because of the way they glow. The eyes are also kind of beady and look like glass marbles. That's just the way the bird is built! Wood ducks are much the same. I've seen them in the wild and at zoos, too. Obviously, you're just a troll... and not even a good one at that. You're pretty lame. What?!? -- you're 13 and bored at your parent's home because nobody with education and an emotional IQ over 5 years old talks back to complete strangers like you do!

[@SuzanneGaiasKindredSpirit]

@@AvengerII Oh boy...I seem to have rattled your shallowness in ornithology knowledge and word definition even deeper 😜🤣 Ornithology is a great interest of mine...Your comment just comes across as fake documentation, discrediting and derogatory to the Pileated, so I just had to point it out and come to his defence!

[@alfonsoantunez1555]

a love the ending

[@shyandmisty]

+alfonso antunez .. I agree, chipmunk got tired of being poked at.. lol

[@reneeelias7168]

Where do the batterys go?

[@TRPGpilot]

Nice!

[@decoysk]

too cool !

[@Why-I-Oughta]

It just seems like the woodpecker was protecting the food he pecked from the bird house. It didn't want to eat the chipmunch or play with it, in my opinion.

[@maggiekay9292]

Amazing 😊

[@micahhuge1474]

pov: woodpecker thinks chipmunk is also wood but to the woodpeckers suprize it is in fact not wood! thus the woodpecker thinks, will this critter cause mass chaos and destroy my land or is this a friend or ally? thou shall find out by giving him a light peck. the wood pecker quickly realized this angers the foraging chipmunk and makes a game out of it the skiddish munk quickly becomes fearce and angry but decides not to take agression at this curious little member of the picidae family and scatters off leaving the pileated pecker alone! for good.

[@jaylenebarton4043]

Thats funny!!!!!!!

[@micahhuge1474]

hes so gentle with the chipmunk

[@silvialisterochoa2859]

❤❤❤❤HOLA PAJARO CARPINTERO HOLA MI AMOR❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😂

[@unionrdr]

Was the blue object a pheasant feeder? I've seen those in UK airgun hunting videos where squirrels eat a lot of the pheasant feed? Grey squirrels from here taken over there at some point & became pest species.

[@shyandmisty]

Actually no it's a round saucer you use for winter sliding, I converted it to a hanging platform feeder for the larger birds that come around so they would stop swarming the other feeders I have setup for the smaller ones..

[@stevenperry7041]

It's not a chipmunk. Golden mantled ground squirrel

[@Chicken4War]

Close but no. Eastern chipmunk

[@gustavgnoettgen]

I wonder what the woodpecker thought. Did he see competition for food, or was he just curious?

[@Dunkiep8]

Probably food competition. If it wanted to kill/eat it, it would be chasing it a lot more, but when the chipmunk was further away from the base of the tree, the woodpecker didn't really care lol

[@English_MoFo]

Food. 100%

[@PlanetRockJesus]

Great video. We had a pileated woodpecker here at our place in Wisconsin about a month ago. What state are you in?

[@shyandmisty]

Northern ontario Canada :-)

[@annwithaplan9766]

They're in the southern states, too.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@annwithaplan9766 Too bad their cousin the ivory billed woodpecker have been exterminated by man.

[@annwithaplan9766]

@@goognamgoognw6637 - How?

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@annwithaplan9766 Not through habitat scarcity (lumber industry) as is commonly said or believed but directly by shooting the birds using call imitation instruments to locate and attract them. This all happened in the 19th century and the USA has become amnesic about it. Once you dig in the dark corner of US history you find passenger pigeon shooting was a sport, you find that there was no laws for birds protection until the Audubon society 1920 started to lobby for it (ivory woodpecker already 99.99 extinct by then). There were various reasons for killing them. - feathers used to fetch a good price on the victorian hat making market in England - large bird end up in the cooking pot - collectors wanted to have their own stuffed bird (more toward the end of its existence) - Animal trophies - Because it was easy to locate and big enough to shoot at. - Rifle shooting use to be prevalent occupation. In those days a lot of meat came from game hunting. The reason why this history has remained quieted is that conservationists do not want to believe humans are that evil, they prefer to blame the lumber industry but it's proved that there are still ivory woodpecker habitat around in Cuba and USA but no birds. If you listen to Cubans at least they will tell you the truth, they were all shot by men. The reason the pileated woodpecker survived is it did not respond to fake calls as the ivory did and its call was not as loud and long range as the ivory. All these informations you find little by little when you read old documents.

[@fontenbleau]

Are he slams it in the head?

[@StretchaSketch]

Damn nature your.......... Cute

[@smpafc1814]

you're*

[@Mathuews1]

God damn auto focus drive motors

[@parisinthe30sx]

I've seen three pileated woodpeckers in my back yard but none of them will come close to my suet feeders, how do you get yours to? I've tried three different types of suet feeders. Still nothing, I don't get it!

[@shyandmisty]

Some time it's the location of the suet, I had to move mine around the yard a few times. I use suet that has peanut in it, mind you I make my own now. Some time it takes a while for them to find it and be comfortable enough in the area the suet is to go to it. Unlike the smaller wood peckers they are the most skittish in our part of town, I see them maybe 4 or 5 times during a year. Keep trying :-)

[@parisinthe30sx]

If you don't mind my asking,, how do you make the suet, which ingredients do you use?

[@shyandmisty]

Base mix for no melt suet wet ingredients 1 cup of rendered beef fat (I render it myself) 1 cup crunchy peanut butter Melt on a low setting Mix a batch of the dry ingredients while the fats are melting and set aside 2 cups quick oats 2 cups cornmeal 1 cup flour 1⁄2 cup sugar You can pour it just as is or add the other ingredients below Optional ingredients (the more you add to this base the harder your suet will be) you can add all of them or some of them - make it your own :-) mix bird seeds (2 cups) dried fruits (1/2 cup) dried mealworm (1/2 cup) In the spring I add crushed eggshells (1/2 a cup) once the fats are melted add it to the dry mix and stir until everything is coated Makes about 5 to 7 cakes If your mix hardens before you are done doing your cakes you can soften it up by putting it in the microwave for about 30 sec hope this helps :-)

[@parisinthe30sx]

Dan & Joe thanks a lot!!. I'll try that recipe and hopefully I'll have better luck. They don't seem very interested in the store bought ones, picky little buggers they are

[@shyandmisty]

I agree.. once i started making them none of the birds I get touch the store bought ones... except for the pesky starlings... they will bully the birds off the suet and eat everything is one day.. I stopped putting some out for a while cause I was getting too many starlings and grackles in the yard, now i have maybe 4 or 5.. I will only put the suet out for the fall and winter this year. so I should be well stocked by then :-)

[@randyreal5871]

lol

[@somethingwithbungalows]

1:04 _vroooom_

[@1aundulxaldin]

Woodpeckers are normally amoral, egotistical, emotionally unbalanced jerks, so this kind of caught me by surprise.

[@supersmilyface1]

What

[@jillybean3529]

This would have been so much better had you held still and not kept trying to re-focus. But maybe he camera did that automatically?

[@shyandmisty]

yep.. auto focus camera.. that's the sound you hear in the background and at max zoom