{"id":460,"date":"2016-04-11T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2016-04-11T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:45:07","slug":"pileated-woodpecker-excavating-next-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Pileated Woodpecker excavating next hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was extremely fortunate today when I followed a Pileated Woodpecker with my binoculars as he landed on the trunk of a very large tree. He scooted down the trunk and all at once disappeared into a hole! I then watched him for the next few minutes as he tossed wood chips out of the hole. He clearly is in the process of excavating a nest hole! These photos are very blurry and zoomed in 18x, but he is quite far back in the woods and I did not want to creep up to the edge of the woods and spook him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120544.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-469\" title=\"P1120544\" src=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120544-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120544-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120544-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120544.jpg 1362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-470\" title=\"P1120545\" src=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120545-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120545-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120545-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/P1120545.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was extremely fortunate today when I followed a Pileated Woodpecker with my binoculars as he landed on the trunk of a very large tree. He scooted down the trunk and all at once disappeared into a hole! I then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}