We appear to have a more interesting assortment of birds here in West Virginia than we did in Virginia. I'd seen several Pileated Woodpeckers flying around and drumming on dead trees. In Virginia, we hardly ever saw one.
Watching the little ones was a fun. A male must have been the first to hatch because he was fed first and the one most often seen looking out of the nest. We thought there were only two but one of the pictures showed three little heads sticking out of the hole. We had two males and a female.
We thought the male was getting most of the food. Turns out we were wrong. The female got a decent share too. In one series of pictures, you can see where the mother left and then came back to feed the female. Turned out they were both good parents. We got some good pictures of both the male and female feeding the babies. If they are still babies at that size.
There's a flicker that seems to be feeding babies higher in the dead tree. They're up high enough that they'll be hard to see though.
Take a look at the pictures. Some of them are kind of interesting. Some are probably there just to fill in the story. If you take a look, you should find some interesting ones.
There is some followup to this story. You can tell that the nest occupice much of the tree. We recently had a lot of wind and the tree broke right at the nest. Its now suspended from the tree trunk and a branch its leaning on the right. I need it to so I can save my shed. Oh well.