Woody Woodpecker Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/28/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

WARNING EXTREME FIRE HAZARD PLEASE DO NOT SMOKE IN THE AREA. This is a new trail that joins Delta Watershed Park, with Joe Brown, and Mud Bay Park. With this new trail you can hike or bike from Tsawwassen to Delta Watershed Park. This is an ease trial to walk where the cache is. The cache is tube like about 6 in long and is within 2 metres of the coordinates. Please bring your own writing tool. And please camouflage as you found. Thank you.

The summer of 2009 I have spotted a Pileated woodpecker in this area. Metro Vancouver Park has put up some died trees in this area to attract the Pileated Woodpecker. The Peleated Woodpecker is a very large North American woodpecker, almost crow sized, inhabiting deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific coast. Adults (40-49 cm long, 250-350 g weight) are mainly black with a red crest and a white line down the sides of the thoat. They show white on the wings in flight. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat, in adult females these are black. These birds mainly eat insects, especially carpenter ants and wood-boring beetle larvae, fruits, and nuts. They often chip out large and roughly rectangular holes in trees while searching out insects. Pileated Woodpeckers raise their young every year in a hole in the tree. In April the hole made by the male attracts a female for mating and raising their young. Once the brood is raised the Pileated Woodpeckers abandon the hole and will not use it the next year. These holes, made similarly by all woodpeckers, when abandoned provide good homes in future years for many forest song birds. Ecologically, the entire woodpecker family is important to the well being of many other bird species. They usually excavate large nests in the cavities of dead trees creating habitat for other large cavity nesters. A Pileated Woodpecker pair stays together on its territory all year round. It will defend the territory in all seasons, but will tolerate floaters during the winter. The Pileated Woodpecker also nests in nest boxes about 15 ft (4.6 m) off the ground. Pileated Woodpeckers make such large holes in dead trees the holes can cause a small tree to break in half. The roost of a Pileated Woodpecker usually has multiple entrance holes. Pileated Woodpeckers have been observed to move eggs that have fallen out of the nest to another site, a rare habit in birds. The cavity is unlined except for wood chips. "Both parents incubate three to five eggs for 15 or 16 days. The young may take a month to fledge." Good luck on spotting one.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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