Wednesday, May 4, 2011

MY QUEST...

Benny-Maintenance Manager, here at our park was telling me yesterday about a large woodpecker he has seen on one of the trees.  Today he caught me at the pool and told me it was on a nearby tree.  I saw it as soon as I left the pool area. 
        A Pileated Woodpecker!  Exciting! 
I ran home for the camera/it was gone by the time I returned, but evidence of it being there was clear.  
 Pileated Woodpeckers excavate large holes in trees, leaving the shavings, in a pile, at the bottom of the tree. There must be bugs in this tree. 
These holes are on another tree, the woodpecker is working on this one.  I will have to take my chair down there and watch for it.          Hopefully, pictures of it will soon be here!

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