Monday, December 20, 2010

-- FWIW --

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For what it's worth, while biding time, just a bunch of still pics of Pileateds in flight that I've brought together, mostly from Flickr (but a few others as well):

might actually start with this pic of a leucistic PIWO in Texas that I stumbled across:


the rest are all normal PIWOs...

an entire set from Dan Pancamo:

and a set from Lillian Stokes here:


the rest are individual shots, in no particular order:

(if any of the links don't work properly let me know; haven't tested them all)
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1 comment:

bayou said...

excellent pileated pics!

Shakespeare your not cyber, but i recently discovered this poem after reading some of your early posts - encourages me to continue the LGB swamp searches! thanks



Monday, August 22, 2005

-- Homage --
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Lord God Bird


I shan't forget that fateful day
In April of '05
When word emerged from Arkansas
'The Grail' was still alive!

Visage, ghost, forest phantom
Skulking through the dank and deep
Milieu of moss-laden swampland
Of that Arkansas retreat.

Grown men wept, o'ercome by joy
As cheers spread 'cross the land
The bird knew not, the bliss it brought
From that bottomland.

Regal, bold, majestic, saintly
Prehistoric silhouette
Shy, elusive, ever-wary
Thus surviving Man's neglect.

Can we save thee, so our children
Might in days still to come
Gaze upon thee, and behold thee
Perched above, against the sun?

And revel in that lordly presence
So long absent, so long gone
Now returned, as Phoenix rising
Carry on... CARRY ON!!

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