Poileated Woodpeckers Family 05-28-26

Today, 05-28-26, I couldn’t stay out long with the Pileated Woodpeckers. Long enough to see both youngsters still in the nest and both mom and dad climbed into the nest to feed them. The youngsters are still pretty small. My images for today.

Pileated Woodpecker Family 05-27-26

Pileated Woodpecker Family 05-27-26 I went back to check on the Pileated Woodpeckers today. Today was the first day I saw that there are two babies in the nest. They never stuck their head out of the nest hole as they are still very young, but they are coming up close to the hole. All I could see were their beaks. The female was the first one to land in a tree near me. She’s landed on this same tree in the past. She’ll usually spend some time and allow me to get all the photos I want before taking off. When she left the male proceeded to land on the nest tree. Now it was time to get some photos of him. When I was looking through the view finder of my camera on one of the shots when he got close to the nest hole thats when I saw something move inside the nest. When the male left his feeding duties the female arrived at the nest for her turn to feed the little ones. Images were taken in Minnesota.