During the past dozen years Pileated Woodpeckers* have been feasting on bugs within this dying alder. Whenever we hear a tree fall we look to see if this one is finally down. Thankfully it's located on the edge of a slope so when it does fall it will thud into a ravine and I won't need to do a clean-up on aisle 7.
* there are three different woodpecker species living in our woods.
Photo by Bill Stankus
4 comments:
Cool! I have a couple of snags on the property which folks are always offering to "clean up" for me. But I like to have them for the woodpeckers... mostly Nuttals and an occasional Downey.
Lucky you with the woodpeckers!
T. - they're entertaining to watch ... except when they decide to drill on the metal downspouts. That sounds like a machine gun, especially at dawn.
It's good to have a purpose
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