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Deb Endresen writes:
Here's another puzzler. What made these holes? A woodpecker? They were on a dead tree in upstate PA.
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Or it’s the Eastern Red Headed Cribbager
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The yellow-bellied sapsucker bores numerous holes in the bark of live trees to obtain sap, an activity from which it derives its name. The sapsucker’s diet is supplemented with insects. Birch, maple and hemlock are its preferred trees.
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Or it’s the Eastern Red Headed Cribbager
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The yellow-bellied sapsucker bores numerous holes in the bark of live trees to obtain sap, an activity from which it derives its name. The sapsucker’s diet is supplemented with insects. Birch, maple and hemlock are its preferred trees.