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Pileated and a Birch Tree
Chippintuff:
I had some of those wood peckers when i lived just north of Tyler, TX. They are beautiful. Their cackles can be heard for a mile. Though they frequently came to check my pecan trees out, I never saw one of them do any damage, and since the trees were young, there was no dead wood on them.
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upstatenybowyer:
I always thought they flew south in the winter Marc. In the summer we've got dozens on our property, but I've never seen one in the winter. I just started seeing/hearing them again about a week ago.
Marc St Louis:
They stay year round here.
They can sure take a dead tree apart pretty quick. This what is at the base of tree
PaulN/KS:
The first one that I ever saw was back in the mid-80's when I lived in Northern Michigan. I've seen them in Oklahoma too. Very impressive bird to watch.
BowEd:
I dare bet money a pileated can tear a rotten tree apart fairly quick.Many of the dead snags I cut up for firewood here are full of holes too from the woodpeckers here.Most times I will leave most snags standing for something for the woodpeckers to do....lol.
Side note....I like watching them at the bird feeder.We've got a bully of a bird called a blue jay that pushes his way around to most birds here,but not these wood peckers.
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