Anyone know what animal did this?

[diatribe]

Hunting for deer sheds, came across this. Woodpecker?

 

[MAGG]

you sure it wasnt man made? the wood pecker holes i see in my woods seem smaller and neater than that

 

[ccm75]

Tree looks pretty healthy for bug infestation...But I usually think of Pileated Woodpecker when I see some serious chopping.
But their holes are usually more oval than round...

 

[DitchDigger]

I know it's not a Maple tree !!!!

 

[slap shot]

Any baby oil in those holes? Any neighbors from Indiana?

 

[saltydude]

Woodcock?

 

[squatch413]

Pileated woodpecker.

 

[slap shot]

Pileated woodpecker.

Bingo!!

 

[MAGG]

I would never kill a woodpecker but has anyone ever come across a dead one and check out the beaks? ? i am wondering what the hell those beaks are made of that they hold up to the jackhammering

 

[ccm75]

I would never kill a woodpecker but has anyone ever come across a dead one and check out the beaks? ? i am wondering what the hell those beaks are made of that they hold up to the jackhammering

And their skull and brain. I think I read somewhere that they studied their skull construction when making football helmets years ago...
But I could be wrong...too many concussions...

 

[MAGG]

true..never thought about the skull and brain

 

[Admin]

Pileated woodpecker.

That would be my guess

 

[richc]

I'm thinking that tree is at a gun club that hosted an NES car shoot.

 

[DitchDigger]

I think it was a Milwaukee hammer drill

 

[diatribe]

My first thought was shot gun slug holes. Thanks for the ID. Squatch!

 

[el duderino]

Pileated woodpecker.

This guy, had one in my backyard last summer, did some work on a neighbors tree.

 

[jeffC]

Now THATS funny. +1

I'm thinking that tree is at a gun club that hosted an NES car shoot.

 

[RDG]

Hunting for deer sheds, came across this. Woodpecker?

one of the trees in my neighbors yard, right on our fence line, has the same looking hole. I was staring it for 5 minutes trying to figure out what the hell it was!!!

 

[June4th]

And their skull and brain. I think I read somewhere that they studied their skull construction when making football helmets years ago...
But I could be wrong...too many concussions...

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15458633

Slow-motion footage, X-ray images and computer simulations have shed light on how woodpeckers avoid injuries to their brains as they peck.

Their heads move some 6m/s (20ft/s), at each peck enduring a deceleration more than 1,000 times that of gravity.

But researchers reporting in Plos One say that unequal upper and lower beak lengths and spongy, plate-like bone structure protect the birds' brains.

 

[WanMan99]

Sasquatch

 

[jtnf]

I was gonna say "Mosin Nagant?"

 

[Brian5582]

I would never kill a woodpecker but has anyone ever come across a dead one and check out the beaks? ? i am wondering what the hell those beaks are made of that they hold up to the jackhammering

I just stripped the front of my garage to reside and if the little bastard that has been drilling holes in the plywood doesn't heed the warning shots soon I will have one you can examine. Before it gets mentioned no I don't have any issues with bugs/ ants.

 

[squatch413]

Sasquatch

Wasn't me

 

[Obie1]

Could be my neighbor, who is tapping oaks and even a hickory tree for sap.