Check the shredded tree

[Professor]

In the Blue Ridge Mountains near the bottom of the Shenandoah Valley. I found plenty of prime rub lines and fresh scrapes. Unfortunately rifle deer season is closed. Looking for a big boar bear. No fresh sign at all and then this. Dude destroyed this tree.

 

[northgeorgiasportsman]

I'm gonna say that was Dryocopus pileatus instead of Ursus americanus, professor.

 

[cowhornedspike]

I'm gonna say that was Dryocopus pileatus instead of Ursus americanus, professor.

This was my first thought also...except without the latin words...LOL

 

[Professor]

I'm gonna say that was Dryocopus pileatus instead of Ursus americanus, professor.

Maybe, but if a woodpecker did that it did it in short fashion. Like, in one afternoon. All of it is fresh, and there are pieces thrown 30 feet back up the mountain. I considered a woodpecker, but figured it had to be a big animal to do that much damage that fast.

 

[KentuckyHeadhunter]

Should be more like this....

 

[tree cutter 08]

I've seen them destroy the side of a log cabin in just a few hours chasing bugs. I'm talking completely destroyed. Beavers aint got nothing on them wood peckers.

 

[buckpasser]

I see trees just like that down here in no bear country. Woody done struck.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Porcupine………saw it right off.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Maybe a long legged beaver ?

 

[Nicodemus]

Yep, that`s a pileated done that.

 

[35 Whelen]

Amazing what they can do.

 

[Professor]

Yep, that`s a pileated done that.

Specifically a Pieated?

 

[Nicodemus]

Specifically a Pieated?

Yessir, Pileated woodpecker. Or an Ivorybill woodpecker, mighty slim chance of that though.....

 

[35 Whelen]

Specifically a Pieated?

Yes. Look at the wood chips at my grandson's feet and the ones in your pictures.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Them woodpeckers will bust open a hole like that and get baby squirrels.

 

[Professor]

I found five more shredded trees today. Not as extreme as this one but the same type damage. Seems there are a lot more pileated woodpeckers up here than in Georgia.

 

[antharper]

I seen this old tree in the mountains this year and thought it was pretty neat .

 

[NCHillbilly]

I found five more shredded trees today. Not as extreme as this one but the same type damage. Seems there are a lot more pileated woodpeckers up here than in Georgia.

The mountains are full of them. The old-timers called them wood hens. And yes, that is what did the damage to the tree in your pics, 100%, not a bear.

 

[Dan DeBord]

The mountains are full of them. The old-timers called them wood hens. And yes, that is what did the damage to the tree in your pics, 100%, not a bear.

You ever here them called Indian hens ?

 

[NCHillbilly]

You ever here them called Indian hens ?

Nope, just wood hens or peckerheads/peckerwoods. People used to eat them here.