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Andrea,

I've seen them in Roscommon, Aman Park (along M45 just west of
GR) and my sister sees them regularly in the Cedar Springs
area.

They are around your/our area. I most often see them close to a
small stream in a mostly decidous forest area. Keep looking,
they're around our area ;-)

What I'm truly envious of, is your seeing Red-headed
Woodpeckers. The last one I saw was at Ludington State Park
about 10 years ago... See lots of Red-bellied ones, but no
Red-headed :-(

Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids  MI
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On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 14:28:45 GMT, "Will/Andrea"
<aeminier@iserv.net> wrote:

>I went home for a visit to North Fla recently and watched 2 pileated
>woodpeckers play, going round and round a tree and walking on the lawn for
>over an hour. It was the most wonderful thing I've ever seen in my life.
>One of my dreams has been to see these birds but I never thought I'd have
>the opportunity to observe them for such a long period and from such a
>close range. Urban area, cars coming and going, me running into the house
>for the binoculars and situating myself - nothing bothered them. Sure wish
>I had them here in Michigan in my rural area. They seemed to be playing, no
>other description. They would go from the base of the tree up to about 15
>feet and then back down, circling it all the while, looking at each other
>and making small sounds. No attempt to feed that I could see. Then when
>they were on the ground they walked around and kept looking at each other,
>then up to the sky. It was so great. I envy you who have them regularly.
>Andrea