Subject: [Tweeters] pileated woodpecker
Date: Jul 15 21:14:31 2007
From: Dawn Bailey - dawnsdog at rainierconnect.com


Hi Martha and Tweets,

When a tree breaks off or looses a limb, I drag the old wood and prop it up
on the fence, another stump or a few together. The woodpeckers love them
and it brings them closer to the windows.

My husband thought I was crazy when I would not let him chop down the snags,
but now enjoys the woodpeckers and their families each summer.


Dawn Bailey
Eatonville, WA
dawnsdog at rainierconnect.com


"The worlds not changed.....there's just less in it"
Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martha Jordan" <swanlady at drizzle.com>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:23 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] pileated woodpecker


> Today I sat and enjoyed a pileated woodpecker feeding in a rotten alder on
> my urban lot. He really went at it, chips lying everywhere below the
> tree. Perhaps tomorrow he will chop deep enough to topple the upper
> portion. It certainly went deep and long furrows today.
> It was a joy to see and likely the last few weeks of woods in my area.
> By mid-August developers will be cutting down and grading to bare earth
> nearly 35 acres behind my house (near Martha Lake, west of Mill Creek).
> So many birds to be displaced, so few places for them to go. For now, I
> spend every evening I can enjoying the songs and calls and chopping with
> beaks.
>
> Martha Jordan
> www.swansociety.org
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