Dan the landscape man!!

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84superchamp said:
Cool! I've been hearing a bobwhite's distinctive call but suspect it may be the mockingbird doing it's thing.
Lots of RW Blackbirds around and i know their call. Following it to see the bird, there was just a mockingbird doing it's call. Amazing.
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RW blackbirds are cool. One of only a few birds that will run off the cowbirds and grackles. Chickadees aren't afraid of them either, but they aren't big enough to actually run them off. I love the woodpeckers and we have I think 5 different varieties in the back yard daily.
 
Last weekend we discovered we had a nesting pair of Green Herons. They hunt off a dead tree that fell in the river last year. It's cool as fuck man.
 
Floyd Eye said:
RW blackbirds are cool. One of only a few birds that will run off the cowbirds and grackles. Chickadees aren't afraid of them either, but they aren't big enough to actually run them off. I love the woodpeckers and we have I think 5 different varieties in the back yard daily.
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Woodpeckers are rare here, i get a visit every few years but they never stick around. I love em too, especially if they're close enough to watch them work.
 
84superchamp said:
Woodpeckers are rare here, i get a visit every few years but they never stick around. I love em too, especially if they're close enough to watch them work.
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I had a woodpecker beating his beak on my chimney cap. It sounded like someone beating a pot with a spoon. Drove me fucking crazy.

It turns out they make noise to attract a mate, so the fucker was just trying to get laid. It went on for weeks.
 
84superchamp said:
Woodpeckers are rare here, i get a visit every few years but they never stick around. I love em too, especially if they're close enough to watch them work.
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We have Hairys, Downeys Red Bellied, Red Headed and Pileated. In fact we have had at least one nesting pair of Pileateds ever since we moved in 25 years ago. Same with Bald Eagles. Always had at least a pair. The current resident Pileateds are an adult male, an adult female, a juvenile male and a juvenile female. I have named them Maurice and Endora and their offspring Samantha and Derwood.
 
Geo said:
I had a woodpecker beating his beak on my chimney cap. It sounded like someone beating a pot with a spoon. Drove me fucking crazy.

It turns out they make noise to attract a mate, so the fucker was just trying to get laid. It went on for weeks.
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They also do it to get bugs. They will sit on the gutters and peck and when the ants and shit come out they get 'em. First time I heard it I was like "What the fuck dude". lol
 
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Love it! There are lots around here, they can land on a dried weed that looks like it can't support a raspberry and it's their favorite perch. I evidently have the non-agressive type, they just mind their business (perching on dried weeds that wouldn't support a raspberry).
 
Geo said:
He might have just been retarded. It's a stone chimney with a metal cap.
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I'm guessing a progressive liberal woodpecker. Probably wants to change his hereditary coloring too.
 
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