Dinosaur attack!

[trapdoor2]

This guy was pounding on my deck railing at 0645 this morning. Going after a carpenter bee tunnel.

Which I now will have to fix. Happy to do that! Pileated Woodpeckers are amazing. He was huge!

 

[Silent Otto]

 

[tery]

 

[Peegoo]

If you don't reload, save your empty .45 cases and use them to plug the carpenter bees' entry holes. They are the perfect size. You'll trap 'em in and they croak.

 

[stormsedge]

We have a pair of pileated that nest in our neighborhood. Very interesting.

There was a downy that bored a hole in our siding…just because she could, I guess.

 

[trapdoor2]

If you don't reload, save your empty .45 cases and use them to plug the carpenter bees' entry holes. They are the perfect size. You'll trap 'em in and they croak.

Ours are 3/8" bees. I use .38s...

 

[dougstrum]

It's so cool to watch the way they fly. Pileated woodpeckers can make short work of shredding a dead tree, or your siding.

 

[clayville]

I’ve been watching a Northern Flicker pecking out a nest cavity in a tree next door for three weeks. Industrious, determined.

 

[jimbo735]

We usually have a nesting pair in the wood line,I had to cut down a ancient ornimental cheery tree on my property and left a stump for future wood working and one of the woodpeckers would visit every so often and just destroy the stump getting incsects,it would usually attack one of my maples and do the same,fun to watch it on the maple as it was a greener healthy tree and it would take chunks off no problem!

 

[stormsedge]

I’ve been watching a Northern Flicker pecking out a nest cavity in a tree next door for three weeks. Industrious, determined.

My Mom loved watching Flickers. When I see them here (on the ground), I know I have an ant nest (often carpenters) to treat.

 

[prairietelecaster]

ERKYopteryx

 

[haggardfan1]

Bird Is the word.

Or so says Peter Griffin.

 

[dented]

I had a pair behind my house in Georgia. I would turn on my Merlin app and they would always show up. Then I would look out and they would be drilling many of the trees that were brought down by storms. They are very big and it's accentuated when you see them bouncing up a tree! The ones that would wake me up in the morning were the Red Bellies banging on the eaves of the house! But even the Hairy's would leave their signature around the place too.

 

[rcole_sooner]

At first I thought that was on your house. Glad it was on your fence.

They are loud. I had some freeze damaged trees that got bug infested, then fungus off the bugs killed a bunch of the trees. That was crazy. Killed off most of the Black Jacks. Once that fungus sets in, the trees are doomed. Borer Beatles carry the fungus. Freeze damage makes it easy for em to get into the trees.

This guy must have found one that still had a bug or 2 in it.

Fair share of carpenter ants too. And a couple of lightning damaged trees with hollow trunks. The sap and water would mix in the trunks, ferment, and then seep out through cracks and holes in the trunk. Tons of insects loved that stuff. Butterfiles, ants, wasps, bees, all getting drunk off that fermented sap.

 

[buster poser]

Beautiful!

 

[Happy Enchilada]

 

[John Backlund]

Somebody had to do it....so here it is...

 

[haggardfan1]

All the pecan trees in my backyard are ringed with woodpecker holes, in pretty perfect horizontal alignment.

A year or two after we moved into this house, I was puttering around in the front yard. I heard an odd drumming sound, and after maneuvering around enough to get a look, there was a woodpecker going to town on the top of a transformer at the corner!

I saw a news story a week or two ago, that one was breaking the outside rear view mirrors on cars in a certain town.