Pileated Woodpecker

After annoying a Great Blue Heron for a photo op, moved along about 10 meters and came across a pileated woodpecker hammering at a snag in the canal.  I haven't seen one since the mid-90's though there was a previous sighting listed in the area for this year.  When I returned after my loop walk of the Fill, it had moved on, only the floating chunks of debris in the water showing that any bird had passed through.

New bird for me

Out walking at lunch today and think I spotted a sora, Porzana carolina, seen here http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/sora/id.  It was out in the muddy water, but went and hid in the plants when I got closer, reminded me of an American coot, but smaller, bobbed more, twitched it's tail feathers like a distressed green heron.  I didn't hear any vocalizations. In same area, female mallard with six,very newly hatched ducklings, saw the male later, standing on a poplar root, out of the water, in the shade, but it's glowing orange feet gave it away.  Also cinnamon teals, two males and a female, tree and barn swallows, also wrens hopping solitarily in the mud.  In addition there was a gadwall couple resting in the tall grasses along the shoreline of the pond.  This was all in the Montlake Fill Natural Area.