Date: 8/7/25 12:51 am From: Brian Carlson <brianrcarlson...> Subject: Re: Pileated Woodpecker
For those of you who don't know, Salal is a fruit bearing plant that grows in the coastal mountains of the Pacific Northwest. I grew up in Oregon and my mom's parents lived near Yachats. My grandmother made Salal berry jelly that was delicious!
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Subject: Re: Pileated Woodpecker
"4 scats contained seeds, some of which were either salal (Gaultheria shallon) or red huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium) (Raley and Aubry 2006)." --From Birds of the World.
On Wednesday 6 August, 2025 at 10:58:03 am GMT-5, JANINE PERLMAN <jpandjf...> wrote:
I've witnessed them doing the same thing here. :-)
Janine Perlman
Alexander Mt., Saline Co.
On Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 09:34:29 AM CDT, Ragupathy Kannan <0000013b0ad14faf-dmarc-request...> wrote:
The Birds of the World account on Pileated Woodpecker does not mention Pokeweed in its diet.
On Wednesday 6 August, 2025 at 12:34:35 am GMT-5, Allan Mueller <akcmueller...> wrote:
Just a few minutes ago had a male Pileated Woodpecker land in a Pokeweed bush about 5 feet from our widow. Ate his fill of pokeberries and moved on.
Very cool.
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