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I'm not sure how current this is, since my note is based on conversations in
past years with Merritt Gibson, but he has apparently witnessed pileated
woodpeckers eating Virginia creeper berries up high in the canopy of his
large trees in Canning; the impression he gave me was of the woodpecker
hanging upside down like a giant chickadee or crossbill as it foraged.
Cheers from Jim
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From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>
Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:56:41 -0400
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
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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