[NatureNS] Pileated's also like wild cherries

From: "Peter Hope" <peterhope@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 14:38:00 -0300
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Hi david,

We have a large wild cheery and every fall at least 1 pileated woodpecker 
comes to feed on the cherries.

Pete
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Virginia Creeper


> Hi All,                Nov 3, 2007
>    Several times in the last half of Oct I have seen or heard a Pileated 
> WP in the adjacent yard in a Black Cherry that has a good hank of fruiting 
> Virginia Creeper (_Parthenocissus quinquefolia_). A Pileated arrived today 
> at about 1:30 p.m. (or made its presence known by clucking) and with only 
> part of the Cherry leaves left  one could clearly see that it was also 
> feeding on the Creeper berries.
>
> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
>
> Mike McCall wrote:
>
>> A 1st year Hermit Thrush was daintily taking berries off the Virginia 
>> Creeper vine on my back
>> fence yesterday. An hour earlier, two Ruffed Grouse dined on the  fruit 
>> of the same vine, about 8 feet
>> above the ground on a pergola which hosts the vine as it comes out of 
>> the ground and begins its
>> ascent.
>>
>> Mike McCall
>> Hall's Harbour
>>
>
> 


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