The Cooper's hawk hypothesis seems good. But we have 2 suet feeders within 20' of its favorite drumming station. Maybe they use them to energize before the great cacophony

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> On May 3, 2020, at 2:24 PM, Bill Anderson <billandersonbic at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I read somewhere that flickers will not do that activity near where they feed. I used to get the same morning wake up calls on my gutters, but they seemed to stop after I hung up a suet feeder, which the flickers use, on the shed on my back yard.

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> A cooper's hawk knocking one off on the sidewalk across the street two years ago may also have discouraged them from advertising their presence too loudly.

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> Bill Anderson; Edmonds, WA. USA

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