Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

Since Saturday, I've been sick with some sort of extreme cold. My appetite disappeared, along with five pounds of weight. I was feeling well enough to get out for a hike, and was rewarded with sightings of two pileated woodpeckers and a barred owl, both pretty rare birds. When I'm hiking almost every day, I'll see one pileated every couple months and an owl every two or three years, so the jackpot was most certainly hit.