After over a week of diligent observation. My identification of a black backed three toed woodpecker
has been amended.....turns out it is a large Downy Woodpecker. My intial observations were from greater distances and my mistake was the rapid hammering sound of both species does sound similar.
It would have been a tremendous sighting if it had been a Black Backed three toed since Tennessee is very far south for that species...... I am glad to update my identification and certainly am glad I did not contact my friends at Cornell Lab of Ornothology with a wrong identification.
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