Can we call that tapping ???

[Mavitec]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Na4U4SzxERXHwfit9

Never seen that before....

[Bucket Head]

Wow. That guy has a woodpecker problem! Lol.

Steve

[DRoseum]

Wow. That guy has a woodpecker problem! Lol.

Steve

...or an insect problem that the woodpecker is trying to fix ;)

All joking aside, I had a similar scenario with a pileated head woodpecker and a cherry tree in my yard. It went bonkers on it for days and actually fell the tree (~18 -20 inch diameter tree).

Watched it all happen out my window while working remote. Was unreal.

[Bucket Head]

That, by far, is the largest "tapping band" I've seen.

Steve

[nhdog]

What you have, my friend, is a very large woodpecker, called a pileated woodpecker. Beautiful to see, hard on dead trees. As large as a crow, we have them around here all the time. They really seem to love dead and dying poplar trees.