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\nAs I read on my back porch this last week, I had plenty of opportunity to watch woodpecker behavior. Here are some observations: first, Mr and Mrs Woodpecker were nonstop feeding machines. Every time one of them arrived for the feeding, the little woodies just let out all kinds of peeps \u2014 which increased in intensity over the week.
\nSecond, their noise and proximity to the ground led to routine inspections by chipmunks and sparrows. At one point, I counted five sparrows curious about the woodies and one of them was at the hole acting like it was trying to feed the woodies. The woodies disappeared deep and waited for Mom or Dad.
\nBut there were some threats, mostly because I don\u2019t trust them: both blackbirds and blue jays seemed to take an interest and everytime I saw them I let out a noise to scare them away.
\nMy big treat was watching Baby #1, a male, leave the nest: the mother fed it and then seemed to coax it out of the hole and up the tree shank. Which little woodie did. The little guy got to the top, looked about, and then just flew away into a tree. Never have seen him since, but I do miss him and his little peeping.
\nWell, mission accomplished. We saved them little woodies and now they\u2019re out and about the neighborhood looking for some tree to whack on.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Thursday, the 7th of June (Kris\u2019 birthday), a dying tree with a nest of woodpeckers fell on my neighbor\u2019s home. The next day the tree cutters, at our request, saved the shank of the tree that was housing those woodpeckers and propped it up against our fence. Now, a little more than a week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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