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Posted by dpb on April 11, 2007, 2:20 pm
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> >> Who's been pulling this stump apart ? Too much activity for woodpeckers.
> >> What other animals (?) could be doing it ?
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> > I'd vote for the woodpeckers -- looks like what they did to an old oak
> > stump in our yard in VA. They were the pileated variety, though, not
> > the little redheaded "Woody Woodpecker" guys. They could make the
> > splinters fly beyond my wildest dreams until I actually watched them
> > in action.
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> Well we have a pileated or two that we see occassionally higher up in other
> trees but I didn't think they could do this much work.
Don't underestimate them! :) They took that old oak stump apart
where there had been long-term infestation similar to what looks like
yours about like taking a hatchet to it. Pieces as much as half-inch
in diameter and inches long scattered about like a lit M-80 had been
dropped down an old squirrel nest inside it.
Not to say something else couldn't be/isn't the culprit, but if it
were raccoons or skunks or similar I'd expect the claw marks, etc., to
be quite apparent as well as tracks as muddy as it appears around...
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