At Montrose Harbor's Magic Hedge, we were so lucky to happen upon these woodpeckers engaged in a mating routine. A video would have been better, as the male danced about the female and she watched him (anthropomorphizing of course) in awe. He flew to a different branch and then she joined him. And of course, 'they lived happily ever after.'
You are so lucky to have had a clean background for this beauty. I was so delighted with My pileated pair but there was so much texture in the bark and brush around it that they were hard to see
