Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Woodpeckers (cautionary note... why are they pecking?) Message-ID: <1453@hound.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 23:50:50 EST Article-I.D.: hound.1453 Posted: Wed Oct 30 23:50:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 02:02:25 EST References: <159@octopus.UUCP> <232@rtp47.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 15 [] While it is logical that woodpeckers are after some tasty bugs, "It aint necessarily so." I have a friend who had a woodpecker develop a desire to peck on the metal flashing of her chimney every morning around 5 a.m. Seems the bird just loved the sound...very resonant, make sleepers think furnace is exploding, fall out of bed, etc. Remedy was to install screen to keep woodpecker away from chimney. Woodpecker moved to similar house two doors down. Many irate phone calls from neighbor. Why not just shoot the beast? They shoot horses, don't they? -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg