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Monday, December 20, 2010

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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:

  1. bayouDec 21, 2010, 5:41:00 PM

    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!!

    © 2005 Cyberthrush, ivorybills.blogspot.com

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