Possible Old Pileated Woodpecker Tree in CO?

[joe...@betterbirdwatching.com]

While hiking yesterday near Leadville I found a very large stump with very large drill holes I posted a report with photos on my website at:

betterbirdwatching.com/pileated-woodpecker-tree-in.com

[DAVID A LEATHERMAN]

Both Hairy and American Three-toed Woodpeckers often excavate circular patches of bark the size of a 50-cent piece or even bigger at the base of dead conifers in the act of extracting larvae of large wood-boring beetles and also nests of carpenter ants. I would say this much more likely than an alpine Pileated Woodpecker in CO.

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins

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> On Aug 24, 2019, at 1:08 PM, joe...@betterbirdwatching.com <joeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> While hiking yesterday near Leadville I found a very large stump with very large drill holes I posted a report with photos on my website at:
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> betterbirdwatching.com/pileated-woodpecker-tree-in.com
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[joe...@betterbirdwatching.com]

Thx for the info

[Mail.indra.com]

Agreed with the other borders; Joe, PIWO holes are often very rectangular and it seems doubtful that they make it here. I am in California right now and seeing them, and grew up with them in New England, and it would be great to have them in CO but, alas, they are pretty far and don’t seem to migrate much.

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[Joe Kipper]

Joe/Dave, I clicked on the link you posted and it did not work. Is there any way you can post it again or is there some other way to vies the photos?

Joe Kipper

Fort Collins

[joe...@betterbirdwatching.com]

I posted the pics on my website if you want to see at betterbirdwatching.com follow link at top but although large the holes do not appear to be pileated