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Pair of Pileateds in a Pine Tree

What are these, climbing turkeys? They’re almost big enough.

Or maybe a pair of Southern Pileated Woodpeckers (Dryocopus pileatus) on a longleaf pine (Pinus Palustris).

I got pretty close; they just laughed. Eventually I walked away to do something else, and they flew into another tree directly over my head, where you see them in this video:


Pileated Woodpeckers, Dryocopus pileatus, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, 7 November 2011.

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Partridge pea

Bobwhite quail love to eat this native legume:


Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 September 2011.

I had to forage far to find this example of Chamaecrista fasciculata aka Cassia fasciculata! Oops, you didn’t see this, did you? Continue reading