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Marc St Louis:
There is this Birch tree across the road from us that has had a Pileated working on it all Winter.  The tree is at least 16" across at the butt and it's still alive, although slowly dying.  There is a large branch coming out on the road side that extends to past half way across the road.  You can see in this picture that he has pecked a line that is easily to the core of the tree, some 4~5 inches wide and maybe 10' long, you can see him above the scar working on the tree.  That tree will wind up on the road, just hope it's not on top of a car as it's going by.

bushboy:
They are very neat looking birds,almost prehistoric looking.albeit a bit shy and hard to get a close up shot of!

JEB:
They are tearing up my Poplar trees. I must have 6 large ones that are dieing because of the wood peckers. Not sure what to do about this.

Marc St Louis:
They are indeed neat looking.  We had one that would come up our suet feeder right next to the window.  They have massive claws and their red top doesn't even look like feathers

If Woodpeckers are on your trees then it's because they have bugs in them and it's the bugs that are killing the trees, of course the large holes in the trees don't help

BowEd:
I wish there was a mating pair of pileated woodpeckers here myself.I've never seen one.Their suppose to be the biggest.There are a few pair in the state but not around me here.We got the red headed/red bellied/and the flicker.All three dwarfed by the size of those pileated woodpeckers.They got a crazy screech to them?Each woodpecker here has his own form of language sounding different than each other here.These wood peckers here eat a lot of black ants for sure.Most grab seeds and wedge them into the bark of a tree too for a snack later I guess.If you manage to get a good pic of those pileated woodpeckers I'd love to see them.
You might have some maintenance to do with that tree in the future Marc.Good firewood anyway right?

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