My colleague pointed out to me this morning that a pileated woodpecker was busily working a cavity high up on the trunk - what a great sight. This is a blurry image from early morning (cropped, of course!).
It's probably a feeding cavity based on my bit of research, although I'm hardly an expert on bird behavior. Not the time of the year for a nesting cavity, certainly, and pileated woodpeckers forage in dead and dying trees in search of a favorite prey item, carpenter ants, according to All About Birds, Cornell Ornithology Lab's online field guide site.
Or perhaps it's foraging for some sort of other insect larvae, too.
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