🍂Tree Tuesday

#treetuesday by @old-guy-photos

This past summer a big Pileated woodpecker was visiting this old Hemlock tree almost every single day and continuously pecked away at it.

I was most curious. I peeled off a big piece of old dead bark and instantly I saw many many big black carpenter ants.
I'm thinking that's why the woodpecker was doing so much excavating

For quite awhile I kept seeing a Chipmunk go in and out of the large opening. Sure looks like a great place for some small critter to hibernate.
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Beech tree leaves.
The Beech trees are the last to lose all their leaves. Some of the leaves stay attached all Winter long. On windy frigid days they make a distinctive fluttering frozen leaf sound.

Pine tree needles decorated with a little bit of snow and ice. 🌲

Photos taken by
@annephilbrick
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