These are not just plain old holes made by woodpeckers, that is why the post is entitled like it is.
This is the work of a Pileated Woodpecker which is a large bird more like the size of a crow.
That is my iPhone 4 in there to give you a size reference.
What on earth could have been so deep within the tree to warrant all that work?
The upper most hole in the same tree.
Poor tree.
A picture of the culprit taken from the Internet.
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I should say this looks more as vandalism of young male woodpeckers. They must be bored...
We had a post once of a woodpecker in our garden who made that holes in a hazelnut tree and put then a nut in such a hole to crack it. Perhaps here the same for another nut to crack.
wow! that's impressive!
Buddy and I just looked at this in amazement. We lost one tree to these fellows, but never saw anything like this. Seeing your iPhone about knocked off our socks. This is a great post for folk like us.
Beautiful bird and a hard worker too.
That is major construction!
Wow that is a lot of work. We have a lot of these birds here also. I find your blog to be very interesting and love all your photos on here. I am a new follower to your blog.
Caverns indeed! I never would have guessed these were made by a woodpecker.
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