[mou] Re: [mnbird] Woodpecker Evidence

[PJ DUSAN]

I have never seen my Hairy's, Downy's, or my pair of Red-Bellied peckers 
doing that!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Weston" <sweston2@comcast.net>
To: "mnbird" <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net>; "Mou-net" <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 12:06 AM
Subject: [mnbird] Woodpecker Evidence


> while doing the Hastings CBC today, I found about ten trees at Schaar's 
> Bluff near Hastings that appeared to have had their
> bark scaled off by a woodpecker.  These deciduous trees were all about 
> three to five inches in diameter and had all the bark
> removed from the base of the tree to about ten to fifteen feet high.  The 
> chisel marks from what appeared to be the bill of
> a woodpecker were clearly visible.  The shavings of most, if not all, were 
> ontop of the snow, indicating that the removal of
> the bark was recent.
>
> I am aware that both Three-toed and Black-backed Woodpeckers scale the 
> bark.  Neither of these would be expected.  There is
> one record of a Black-backed Woodpecker in Dakota County, and one of a 
> Three-toed not far across the river.  Do any of the
> other woodpeckers methodically strip the bark off of a tree?
>
> Steve Weston on Quigley Lake in Eagan
> sweston2@comcast.net
>
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