Walks in the Woods - Cool Finds

 Thursday, July 18, 2013
During a morning walk I found this red-tailed hawk wing feather:

And then later in the day, on the evening walk all these feathers from a pileated woodpecker were lying on the ground:

 Tuesday, July 16, 2013
On this very hot and humid morning I found a lovely, downy feather from the nest of some sort of raptor.  I scanned it along with an earlier find.  Please let me know if you know the birds they are from.  I'm guessing the less fluffy one is from a barred owl?

 

We also scared a young hognose snake lying on the sandy path.  This one was twice as big as the little one I saw a few days ago.  He did his very cool cobra, hissing thing.