Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-clt!bennison From: bennison@clt.DEC (Victor Bennison - DTN 381-2156) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: woodpeckers Message-ID: <1362@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 10:58:06 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1362 Posted: Mon Nov 11 10:58:06 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 04:25:01 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 17 --- The person who said that woodpeckers peck on metal to mark territory sounded authoritative, so maybe he/she knows. But if I were just guessing I'd say they do it because it makes a hollow sound, as in "hollow tree", as in "free bugs, eat all you want". As for shooting them, I see no contradiction between eating domesticated animals, and not wanting to see wildlife destroyed unnecessarily. Pests are pests, and I set mousetraps like most everyone else, and I might even shoot a woodpecker if it was disrupting my life and I couldn't find another way of dealing with it. But I take no joy out of killing anything. (By the way, I put out suet for the woodpeckers. They come by the dozens. I've never had one peck on my house, and I even have a metal stove pipe.) Vick Bennison ...decvax!decwrl!rhea!tools!bennison (603) 881-2156