This tree is still living… for now. The woodpeckers are drilling for ants and wood-boring beetles.
The back of my house (brick) can just be seen through the foliage in the first picture.The brick arches support my back deck, with the terrier yard underneath of it (30 feet by 30 feet, half in sun, half in shade, half on concrete, half on gravel).
We have no shortage of trees, but I think we are losing ash to Emerald Ash Borer beetles that came over from Asia and were first identified in Michigan in 2002. Massive ash loss across 38 states and six Canadian provinces.
Pileated Woodpeckers are magnificent birds. About the size of a crow, they look very much like the extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and have a call that could orchestrate an African jungle movie.
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