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The wild side

You see more than just dogs and cats in and around East Palestine. Here are three examples, including a pileated woodpecker. According to Mr. Google, it is the largest woodpecker in North America except the ivory-bill, which is almost certainly extinct. Its favorite meal consists of carpenter ants, which it excavates from usually rotting wood. It leaves characteristic rectangular holes in dead trees. The pileated is thought to be the inspiration of the Woody the Woodpecker cartoon character. Also shown here are two more common critters: a garter snake, which kept its eye on the camera, and a squirrel, which paid little mind to the woodpecker.

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