https://photos.app.goo.gl/Na4U4SzxERXHwfit9
Never seen that before....
Can we call that tapping ???
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Na4U4SzxERXHwfit9
Never seen that before....
Wow. That guy has a woodpecker problem! Lol.
Steve
2014 Upgrades!: 24x40 sugarhouse & 30"x10' Lapierre welded pans, wood fired w/ forced draft, homemade hood & preheater
400 taps- half on gravity 5/16, half on gravity 3/16
Airablo R.O. machine - in the house basement!
Ford F-350 4x4 sap gatherer
An assortment of barrels, cage tanks & bulk tanks- with one operational for cooling/holding concentrate
And a few puzzled neighbors...
http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/t...uckethead1920/
...or an insect problem that the woodpecker is trying to fixOriginally Posted by Bucket Head
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.
Last edited by DRoseum; 04-05-2023 at 09:39 AM.
D. Roseum
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~136 taps on 3/16 custom temp controlled vacuum; shurflo vacuum #2; custom nat gas evap with auto-drawoff and tank level gas shut-off controller; homemade RO #1; homemade RO #2; SL SS filter press
~30 gallons / year
That, by far, is the largest "tapping band" I've seen.
Steve
2014 Upgrades!: 24x40 sugarhouse & 30"x10' Lapierre welded pans, wood fired w/ forced draft, homemade hood & preheater
400 taps- half on gravity 5/16, half on gravity 3/16
Airablo R.O. machine - in the house basement!
Ford F-350 4x4 sap gatherer
An assortment of barrels, cage tanks & bulk tanks- with one operational for cooling/holding concentrate
And a few puzzled neighbors...
http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/t...uckethead1920/
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.
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