[EBB Sightings] Pileated Woodpecker at Redwood Regional Park

I am posting this sighting for my friend Richard Schwartz, who saw (and 
photographed) a Pileated Woodpecker this afternoon at Redwood Regional 
Park. The bird was assiduously working the partially moss-covered trunk 
or large limb of a downed tree just off the Stream Trail.

To find the location, park at the Skyline Gate Staging area on Skyline 
Boulevard. Follow the Stream Trail from the parking lot, past where 
Tres Sendas joins the trail. The downed tree is a bit more than a third 
of a mile beyond this point--but perhaps seventy-five feet or so before 
Prince Road--on the left side of the trail, up a steep slope.

The Pileated, a male, was so engaged in his woodworking project that 
Richard and his friends did not spook it. Nor did a subsequent group of 
hikers. He heard the bird call and thought he heard another bird 
respond.

Judith Dunham