For the last few years, pileated woodpeckers would bring their young to our 
suet feeders for a quick snack. We have noticed that the male pileated has 
always been feeding a young male, and likewise, the adult female feeds the 
young female.  Several questions arise: is this characteristic of the 
species or just the pair that claim my yard as territory?  Also, do 
pileated just have two young all the time? And how did they manage to get 
one male and one female offspring for several years running, since we have 
not seen two young following an adult? This is assuming the adults are a 
pair: the males and females do NOT come in at the same time.

We put in a waterfall with stones in the reservoir to make the water 
shallow and were rewarded with a female scarlet tanager sharing a bath with 
a robin. We have had scarlet tanagers on migration, but this was the first 
year they have spent the summer.

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