Could there have been ants on the ripe apples? They would have been
attracted to the insects more than the apples in my experiences with
Pileated Woodpeckers.

Louise
Eatonville
dale.fountain at gte.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Schmidt <bobs at BESTNET.com>
To: 'phainopepla at yahoo.com' <phainopepla at yahoo.com>;
tweeters at u.washington.edu <tweeters at u.washington.edu>; Peter Carr (E-mail)
<carrp at edaw.com>
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 11:39 PM
Subject: RE: YARD BIRD ADVENTURE-PILEATED WOODPECKER


>Hi,
>I see a Pileated every couple months near my house in suburban Bothell (on
>hilltop near 228th and Meridian). Most have been flying over my
>neighborhood apparently toward larger conifer stands nearby. However, one
>day in the fall of 1997 (wish I had good field notes on this one), I saw a
>male that appeared to be feeding on apples in a neighbors lone, 8 ft apple
>tree. It flew from the trunk, to outer branches, dislodged an apple or
two,
>then pecked at apples on the ground. Anybody seen this behavior before?
>Are the Bothell Pileateds starving or just adapting to suburban living?
>Bob
>BobS at BestNet.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Dossett [SMTP:phainopepla at yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 3:16 PM
>> To: emdp at eskimo.com; tweeters at u.washington.edu
>> Subject: Re: YARD BIRD ADVENTURE-PILEATED WOODPECKER
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I first moved to Bothell, I was really surprised at how often I
>> saw the local Pileateds. I hear them every couple of days, and I see
>> them from my yard about once a week. I also see them on a regular
>> basis while going down Locust Way/61st Ave N.E. going down into
>> Kenmore.
>>
>> The surprising part of all this is that there really isn't a lot in the
>> way of big trees and dead trees around here which (among other things)
>> they seem to prefer. There is a lot of new houses going up too. Makes
>> me wonder how much longer they will be a part of the fauna of this
>> area...
>>
>> Michael Dossett
>> Bothell Washington
>> phainopepla at yahoo.com
>>
>> --- Duane Palmer <emdp at eskimo.com> wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I am generally a lurker on this list, and often
>> > envious of other peoples
>> > birding adventures, but I had a wonderful
>> > cooperative pileated encounter
>> > today.
>> > I was gardening-aka-birding by ear. I had heard a
>> > pileated and even
>> > glimpsed it twice over the previous couple of hours.
>> > (Pileateds are not
>> > unheard of in my neighborhood, but pretty uncommon.)
>>
>> snip...
>> >
>> > Margie in Kenmore
>> >
>> >
>>
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