The furious sound of something smashing into a tree pounded in my ears as soon as I stepped out of my car at Valley Forge National Historic Park just after dawn in early March.
It was a woodpecker — I knew that much — but when I glanced down at my phone, an app identified the source specifically as a pileated woodpecker. Gazing up into the trees, I found the massive, red-crested bird slamming its head into the bark and confirmed the app was right.
When I became a…
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