Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site teklds.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!dand From: dand@teklds.UUCP (Daniel Dreiszus) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Woodpeckers Message-ID: <1211@teklds.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 18:48:22 EST Article-I.D.: teklds.1211 Posted: Thu Oct 31 18:48:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:25:14 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 24 > attack of woodpeckers on a house is a warning that the wood of the house > is harboring some insect pests. Eliminate the insects, and the > woodpeckers will lose interest. Well, not necessarily. For the past two summers we have been visited by a woodpecker that hammers against all of the metal chimneys in the neighborhood (beginning at pre-dawn -- ting ting ting ting ting ting ting ting ting, . . . ting ting ting ting ting ting ting . . . .). Sounds like a rather light meal to me; sometimes they must peck just to peck.. Also, we have a cedar-sided cabin in an area rife with woodpeckers and trees to peck on -- they have actually pecked clear through the siding in spots, and there simply aren't any bugs in or on the siding to tempt them. As an aside, I would also add that the suggestion to off the little pest with a 22 cal. shot shell is really quite prudent and workable, and I think that anyone familiar with this low velocity, low mass configuration would agree, strange (or dangerous) as it may seem to the uninformed. As with anything potentially dangerous (fireworks, driving, throwing a baseball) safety depends on the experience and common sense of the individual.