This pic is a close up of the sap drenched bark on one of the trees we found yesterday. The trunks are black and wet looking from the sap, that's really the easiest way to identify them. You can (sort of) see the ants on this one (there's a couple on the upper left):



And this is the big old maple, you can see the rings from the woodpecker holes near the bottom of the trunk. That vine on it is huge, about 6 inches in diameter, it looks almost like a branch of the tree in this pic, but it actually clings to a branch about 30 ft above:



And here's close up of the bark, you can see that the woodpeckers have been working this one for a long time:

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