This very young male pileated woodpecker had apparently fallen from its nest and was on the ground at the edge of the woods alongside the road. I was just about six feet from it, and will probably never again get this close to one of these birds. It was near Beidler Forest, South Carolina. I hope it somehow found its way home.
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