[mou] Re: [mnbird] Woodpecker Evidence

[RICHARD BEENS]

I have a pair of pileateds that regularly visit my back yard.  Over the last 
year, they've taken half the bark off a large, dying oak.  I believe their 
favorite food is carpenter ants who, along with other crawly-creepy critters 
live under the bark of dying trees.

Dick Beens
St. Louis Park


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PJ DUSAN" <pdusan@msn.com>
To: "Steve Weston" <sweston2@comcast.net>; "mnbird" 
<mnbird@lists.mnbird.net>; "Mou-net" <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [mnbird] Woodpecker Evidence


> 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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