To Cay. Bird list- another opinion: see below.
Well, this is cool! I always have Pileated WPs here in my Lansing woods & I've
never seen that much shredding.
The tree I saw was shredded from the ground up to about 4'. On one side.
I was hot & tired by then, so I didn't look around too much, so I didn't see if
pieces were flung far away.
Also, I didn't take a photo w my phone.
Thanks for another opinion.
DS
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Donna Scott
On Jun 23, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Laurie Roe wrote:
> Hi Donna, I sent this photo to Linda Spielman of tracking fame.
> She thought this was Pileated work..just for reference. I enclose her remarks
> too in bold here. Laurie Roe.
> ... but I'm still voting for birds rather than bears. An important bit of
> information would be the height of the debarking on the standing tree--do you
> have a sense of that? If it's more than 6 or 7 feet above ground level, it
> couldn't have been a bear. I have my doubts that the shredding has anything
> to do with bedding material, because leaves are so abundant, and most of the
> shredded stuff is still on the ground. And when did you find the tree? It's a
> bit early for bears to be denning in our area. Woodpeckers are completely
> capable of doing everything I see in the photo, both the debarking of the
> tree and the shredding on the ground. The chips scattered by birds are
> generally pretty close to the source, as they are in the photo, whereas bears
> often throw big chunks many feet away from the log they came from.
>
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> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Donna Scott wrote:
>> This is rather off-topic (?), but I thought people would want to know that I
>> found evidence of recent bear activity near the blue trail in
>> Lindsay-Parsons preserve Saturday, June 22. Walking east of Celia's Cup,
>> hoping a Worm Eating Warbler might appear, I found a medium-sized tree
>> scratched all apart on one side to a height of 3-4 ' with all the shavings
>> piled at the bottom. Way too much destruction for a Pileated WP.
>> It was freshly done & bear was probably eating grubs & ants. I remember
>> reading a recent Ith. J. article about a bear in someone's yard south of
>> Ithaca, so maybe he or another is around LPP now.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> Donna Scott
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