Re: Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Found!

That's what we told him, Theresa, but he has sent us an article from a local
source that says they are looking for nest sites.  They drum to attract mates,
and if they find a space that sounds hollow, they make a hole for a nest.  The
spaces inside the walls are not large enough for their nests - need to be six
inches or more deep - so they move on to another hollow-sounding space.
This is partly a result of urban sprawl - suitable dead trees have been 
removed.  My son says the recommended remedy is to build a suitable
birdhouse for the fickers.
Auralie

In a message dated 04/28/2005 11:32:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tchessie@comcast.net writes:
I'd be wondering what is in his walls that the flickers are after!! Some 
sort of bug I suspect.
Theresa

Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 04/28/2005 9:28:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>zsanders@midsouth.rr.com writes:
>Have you all had a lot of woodpeckers of all sorts this year?  We have more 
>than I've ever before seen. 
>
>
>We always have lots of woodpeckers - downies, hairys, and red-
>bellies, and an occasional pileated in the woods.  The downies
>are the most numerous and friendly - they come and chatter at us
>as we are changing the suet cakes.
>My son in Colorado is having a real problem with woodpeckers -
>he thinks probably flickers - pecking holes in his house.  He has 
>an adobe-style house, but made of fiberglass, and they have made
>several six-inch holes right through the walls.  He has always been
>a bird-lover, but is fast losing his tolerance for woodpeckers.
>Auralie

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