I couldn't ID it, but knew it wasn't a pileated.

I've had pileated woodpeckers visit my yard several times. They're huge, and the crest makes them unmistakable. Beautiful, noble birds, and clowns, too. One hung upside down on a little wire suet feeder in my front window, and stayed there for 15 minutes. Amazing.

I love all woodpeckers!

Good pictures; bad IDs.

Fixed my post!

The little ones look like your picture and I think they are pileated. Each year I hear somebody hammering on my roof and step outside to see one of them pecking away at my chimney liner

The big ones are slower and louder. But they're all very cool, here in my private wild kingdom.

The other day driving down the highway I saw what I first thought was a group of quite large ravens. As I passed I could see their hooked, pink necks and realized it was actually several turkey vultures huddled in the rain.

I've had a bald eagle fly so close over my roof that from my attic window, where my peecee sits, I could see each feather delineated.

Last summer I looked out my bedroom window one morning to see my visiting turkey peeking around the little shed by my house, looking back at me. She raised her brood behind my barn somewhere. Sadly, 2 of her babies didn't make it...I found them by my barn.

I used to have a barn owl that hung out in a tree behind my bedroom. And one night, while we were building my barn, we discovered it watching us from the nearest fence post. I ran up to the house to get my camera. It let me take pictures from within touching distance. Even the flash didn't disturb it! I ended up with it filling the frame, silhouetted by black trees and midnight blue sky behind.

It's gorgeous.