Woodpecker Trail

This morning my Toddler group saw this tree with a Pileated Woodpecker in it.   Although the woodpecker was gone by the time I returned to take the picture you can still see the signs of it: missing bark and a pile of wood chips at the base of it.   You often hear the Pileated Woodpecker before seeing it- so listen up.  The woodpecker loves insects and grubs and uses its long sticky tongue to grab insects.  Last week's story was "Peck, Peck, Peck" by Lucy Cousins...there must be other great woodpecker stories.  I will look into it.  For now I can only think of The Busy Tree by Jennifer Ward as having a woodpecker.  The library suggests, Owl and the Woodpecker by Brian Wildsmith and also Woodpecker Wham by April Pulley Sayre.