See, not every bird picture I take is a tight close-up

While photographing a bee swarm at Ridgefield, off in the distance there was a quick flash of red. When I looked up this male pileated woodpecker was hammering into the soft wood, allowing a few quick shots before flying off into the distance.

Pileateds are our largest woodpecker in the United States, unless of course the ivory-billed is only mostly extinct.