Breezy Point, Warren [delete]Moosilauke[/delete], N.H.
1894
June 21
  Very warm with showers and some distant thunder.
  Just after breakfast we heard Pileated Woodpeckers calling
a little way above the house and Faxon and I went in
search of them. We found two birds, a male and a female,
in some large maple & birch trees in a hollow. They were
very tame allowing us to approach to within 30 yards.
The [male] was pecking rather listlessly at a a dead prong, the
[female] sat crosswise on a branch about seventy yards away.
They called to each other at short, regular intervals using
the short Flicker-like "shout". Neither bird changed its
perch for a full twenty minutes. A length the [female] flew
out into a pasture and alighted on a stump when she
was joined by a third bird which we had not seen
before. The [male] remained in the grove [delete]behind[/delete] where we saw
him first. We could not make out whether these
Woodpeckers were old or young. While perched in the trees
they kept moving their heads about and pointing their
bills upward in a way that reminded us of Herons.
Occasionally one of them would call cuck, cuck, cuck etc.
very slowly a great number of times. This call may be
called a cackle. It is rather hen-like in character.
  After leaving the Woodpeckers we took a walk down
to the river which we crossed by a elevated bridge and
recrossed lower down, by a footbridge. [delete]which[/delete] There is
a pretty, winding foot-path leading from this bridge back
to the hotel, first along the rim, then up a steep hillside
and through spruce pastures. The river flows through a
deep ravine over a rocky bed with rapids and waterfalls.
A Winter Wren was singing near the footbridge.