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From: bennison@clt.DEC (Victor Bennison - DTN 381-2156)
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Subject: Re: woodpeckers
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Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 10:58:06 EST
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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
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