This morning I looked up at my feeders to see a Pileated standing on
the cross-bar that supports multiple feeders. This wasn’t particularly
unusual except that the Pileated was standing over a feeder with oranges.
A second look and I saw a second Pileated next to the first but this one
was bent over eating suet from the suet feeder - normal. It After about 20
seconds the second Pileated stopped feeding and straighten up. At that
point the first Pileated hopped over to the suet feeding Pileated and
started to eat out of second Pileated’s mouth. This continued for some
time.
I have never seen any kind juvenile bird eat from the mouth of an
adult. Always the adult feeding the juvenile. Google searches tell me
that the adult Pileated regurgitates the food and feeds the young. Being
new at bird watching, has anyone with more experience seen this kind of
behavior??
Thnx
Jack
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