You think you gotta peck out a livin?????????

[Tuberale]

Guess you need to take a trip to Oregon, worldtalker. We have several of the largest trees in the world growing on some of the worst soils. That appears to be possible because we also have more varieties of mycorrhizal fungi than most places in the world. Truffles, even.

We've even have a larger salamander. Here's a site to see the Giant Pacific salamander.
http://www.oregonwild.org/fish_wildlife/wildlife-pages/pacific-giant-salamander

Oregon at one time was semi-tropical as well. That's why we have fossilized palm in the John Day Fossil Beds.

Of course, we also have stuff like sunstone, gold, silver, opal, diamonds, chrysoprase and thundereggs.<G> (Okay, so I said sunstone and opal. Sunstone is a kind of opal.)

 

[ronwoodcraft]

Yes, as been said we have those here and they are magnificent birds, though I don't see them often.

Just a suggestion, if you pack some suet cakes in those holes you will soon have different woodpeckers and other birds using that tree again.

 

[Tuberale]

Yes, as been said we have those here and they are magnificent birds, though I don't see them often.

Just a suggestion, if you pack some suet cakes in those holes you will soon have different woodpeckers and other birds using that tree again.

There should be some Oak woodpeckers near you, Ron. I've found them closer to Silver Creek Falls, especially near groves of older Oregon White oak. Need to get out of the car and look at the oak trunks: you should see lots of individual holes created by woodpeckers in the bark, each just large enough to put a single acorn into. Just how the woodpeckers keep the squirrels from stealing the acorns is beyond me, though.

 

[allen]

great looking pic of the destruction and beautiful birds !