Pileated Woodpecker

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This red-headed beauty is the largest living woodpecker in North America, second only to the believed extinct Ivory-Bill. Males such as this one can easily be differentiated from females by the tell-tale red mustache stripe on his cheek. Pileateds favorite meal by far is carpenter ants. They will drill a series of rectangular holes in dead trees and logs in search of them, a familiar site along Washington's forested hiking trails. 

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Quil Ceda Creek

Marysville, Washington, USA