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Who's been pulling this stump apart Srgnt Billko 04-10-2007
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Posted by mm on April 11, 2007, 3:20 pm



>>
>>
>> >> Who's been pulling this stump apart ? Too much activity for woodpeckers.
>> >> What other animals (?) could be doing it ?
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> 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...

Birds use to leave tracks also, but after Crime Scene Investigators
learned how to make plaster casts, the birds took to flying in and
leaving the same way. They're very sneaky.

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Posted by Srgnt Billko on April 11, 2007, 6:35 pm



>>
>>
>> >> Who's been pulling this stump apart ? Too much activity for
>> >> woodpeckers.
>> >> What other animals (?) could be doing it ?
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> 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...
>

I was going to set up a motion detector camera today but just didn't get to
it.



Posted by dpb on April 11, 2007, 9:31 pm

> After the last one had me going, I can't wait to see how this one
> transpires..
> Searcher
>
The last one In retrospect dumping the salt OUT OF the bags into wheel
barrow ( clean) spreading around the pool with shovel might of been a better
idea, to bad I didn't think of that.



Posted by Srgnt Billko on April 11, 2007, 10:55 pm

> After the last one had me going, I can't wait to see how this one
> transpires..
> Searcher
>
The last one In retrospect dumping the salt OUT OF the bags into wheel
barrow ( clean) spreading around the pool with shovel might of been a better
idea, to bad I didn't think of that.



Posted by Chris Lewis on April 13, 2007, 2:50 pm



> > 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.

I'd expect a pileated woodpecker would leave distinct and quite
regular holes, even in very rotten wood. The holes we have are
usually 3-4" high, 2-3" wide, and neatly tapered into the tree.

We have _lots_ of samples of that on our property.

There are some holes in the stump that're slightly suggestive of that,
but can't tell for sure.

> 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...

The wood appears very soft, so it's not clear that the claw marks would
really be noticable, and the ground doesn't look like it'd show tracks
from something like a skunk very well.

I'm thinking most likely skunk. Got armadillos in your area?
But even a groundhog might do that.
--
Chris Lewis,

Age and Treachery will Triumph over Youth and Skill
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.

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