I thought you all might find it interesting to see exactly what Mr/Mrs Pileated Woodpecker did to the tree. See the pile of wood shavings around the base of the poor thing? He/she pecked at the tree so much that it split at the thinnest part and broke off.
You can see a video of the woodpecker over on Rick's site, at this link. Be sure and turn up your sound so you can hear his/her beak hitting the tree.
Let's take a closer look at those wood chips:
Maybe we should collect them as use them as starter for our wood fires! This bird meant business!
It's actually working on two trees as you see in this photo. We haven't seen it now for about a week so maybe it's gotten all the good bugs out. I saw a few other trees in the woods that have the same scaly fungus growing on the bark that look like the woodpecker has been having a go at them as well. Maybe the fungus indicates it's infected with bugs? Carpenter ants? Grubs? This photo was taken before the tree on the left split and fell down. I find nature so interesting, don't you?
Posted by Lynne on 02/23/2016 at 07:34 AM
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