Both Hairy and American Three-toed Woodpeckers often excavate circular patches of bark the size of a 50-cent piece or even bigger at the base of dead conifers in the act of extracting larvae of large wood-boring beetles and also nests of carpenter ants. I would say this much more likely than an alpine Pileated Woodpecker in CO.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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> On Aug 24, 2019, at 1:08 PM, joe...@betterbirdwatching.com <joega140@gmail.com> wrote:
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> While hiking yesterday near Leadville I found a very large stump with very large drill holes I posted a report with photos on my website at:
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> betterbirdwatching.com/pileated-woodpecker-tree-in.com
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