Hi Anny!

At 02:07 PM 1/20/97 -0800, you wrote:

>2. Are the flickers likely to do serious damage?
>
Yes, they are. I've had the little buggers open a hole in the siding and
begin pulling insulation out to make room for themselves.

>While I'm asking, There are beautiful redwing blackbirds along the road
>between here and town, but none on the hillside where I live- there's a
>creek, pasture, woods here- is there any way to tempt some of the
>red-winged blackbirds to visit?


Try offering some chicken scratch and/or black oil sunflower seeds. They
love both those things.

Happy birding,

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz)
USA
woodduck at cruzio.com

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer,
It sings because it has a song"