ML212775481
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Observation details
The first three photos show this male PIWO foraging on the trunk of a dead Loblolly Pine tree, as photographed from the door of my A-frame cabin on the banks of Holmes Creek. This is the tree that Hurricane Michael blew over in October 2018, but it got hung up in another pine, to keep it from falling. It is/was leaning at a 45 degree angle. It did die over the intervening 17 months. Instead of having it cut down, clear to the ground, I left about 30 feet for the Pileateds. The PIWOs took to it immediately after I had the upper canopy of the pine removed. I was so grateful I left the bottom 1/3 of the tree for them! In the 55-second sound recording, made with just my iPhone’s voice recorder app, you can hear not only the drumming of a Pileated and a Red-bellied Woodpecker, but you can also hear the wing sound of a flushing Mourning Dove. Other birds on the recording: Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, Red-shouldered Hawk, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, American Crow, American Goldfinch, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and the scold of a Blue-headed Vireo, for a total of at least 11 species.
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