Now if a Buck would show

Pilliated wood pecker ?

Yes

Common as mosquitos around here. They can make quick work of a suet cake in January

Red headed pillated woodypecker! I think it's on the endangered species list.

Really? They are everywhere here. I call them "Goofy" when they hang upside down on the suet feeders.

Have a pair here every winter on the suet. Cool birds.

Fun to watch from a deer dtand

The redheaded woodpecker is , but not the pileated woodpecker.
I get them and the flicker mixed up.
I think they're one and the same.

They are a cool bird,big for a woodpecker.
Used to see lots in central Ontario when I was a kid.They would drill big elongated holes in the sides of big white pine.Nests I suppose.
Very rare bird here in the north although I have seen a couple over the years.

They’re all common here. I actually hate hearing them all day.

Reason I asked because I don’t think I’ve ever saw one here

We had one of those jaspers visiting us every year. He'd bang on our spouting in mating season.

have had them 20 feet away on the pile while running a woodsplitter, they like frozen carpenter ants

They worth a crap to eat?

I've had a pair in the woods behind my place for years. I love the calls they make, sounds like something out of tropical forest rather than northern hardwoods.

Girdled two of my best apple trees last year. You can have them.

They bad about getting my heart going during turkey season. Sometimes we’ll sit and call and maybe catch a snooze. You open your eyes and see that red and think it’s a gobbler coming and it’s one of those dang woodpeckers about 3ft off the deck.
Didn’t realize they were in the PNW until I found a tree they’d made a hotel out of.

Given the stories I’ve heard I’m pretty sure reason they are called wood hens is certain locales

I Love hearingand seeing them too