> Hi All
> We have a young family of Hairy Woodpeckers around our place. This morning
> we noticed the adult male with the two juveniles at the platform feeder
> which holds unshelled peanuts. The adult grabbed a peanut and flew to the
> Black Walnut tree about 10 feet away. He wedged the peanut into a crevice in
> the tree bark and then opened it and ate the peanuts. Further checking
> revealed that this has probably been going on for some time now as there are
> several peanut shells on the ground directly below the recently wedged one.
> Gail Spitler
> Johnsons Landing, BC
> spitler at wkpowerlink.com

Shoot, our flickers just stand on the darn things, either in the feeder
basket or on our patio, and hammer away right there....

'Course, flickers are bigger and heavier...

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Steve Mansfield steve at nw.verio.net
Verio NorthWest Network Engineer 425-649-7467