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kayaksailor In reply to Ryser915 [2009-03-12 05:22:44 +0000 UTC]

I am really surprised to hear that you don't have them They've been everywhere I've ever lived so it's hard to imagine them not being there! They are such characters

We've got the larger red flickers (they're pretty shy) and the cute little sapsuckers [link] which were new to me...I know the piliated are around here - my daughter and I volunteer feeding abandoned baby birds and there ware several last summer - but I don't think I've seen an adult what a great sight for you! I think we have the hairy woodpeckers, too, but I'm not sure...

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Ryser915 In reply to kayaksailor [2009-03-12 05:31:08 +0000 UTC]

I'm a big ass bird nerd...like..obsessed hahah, so I strangely know about birds that aren't anywhere near me as well as my local species Here's a site that shows the range of the acorn woodie (if you scroll down) [link] and there are actually only a few places in the country where they live!

Here we have downy woopeckers, hairy woodpeckers, flickers, pileated woodpeckers, red bellied woodpeckers and red headed woodpeckers . My parents house in New Jersey has aluminum siding that looks like wood, and the flickers try and peck at it!!!

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kayaksailor In reply to Ryser915 [2009-03-12 06:00:39 +0000 UTC]

lol! I faved that site! (When I was a kid I thought I wanted to go to Cornell and become an ornothologist but that was before I learned that spelling matters ) How lucky you are to have so many kinds!!

I learned a few details about the Acorns The story about them putting almost 500 pounds of acorns into the water tower reminds me of our home! We had it inspected and the guy found gallons of acorns up in the attic - the birds had pecked through the fiberboard siding and were putting the nuts into the attic. We had lots of damage to be repaired - in fact we completely replaced three sides of the siding...there were so many nuts that came pouring out whenever a piece of trim was removed! A few bats flew out too We replaced it with a cement sideing - they still try but not too hard! For the first few months I'd think someone was knocking on our door - I knew I'd gotten used to them when I went to the window to scare them off and saw the UPS truck in the driveway...someone WAS knocking on my door

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Ryser915 In reply to kayaksailor [2009-03-12 06:02:30 +0000 UTC]

You sure have an interesting yet special bond with these guys!!!

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kayaksailor In reply to Ryser915 [2009-03-12 06:11:00 +0000 UTC]

[link] Indeed we do

we kept this little one from being snack food, we hope... have a sort of problem - we've got three cats whom we adore so I don't put up seed feeders so I'm not making a kitty buffet - we've only got hummingbird feeders.

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Ryser915 In reply to kayaksailor [2009-03-12 06:14:29 +0000 UTC]

adorable!

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kayaksailor In reply to Ryser915 [2009-03-12 06:19:42 +0000 UTC]

this was taken by my daughter - it's my hands

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kayaksailor In reply to Zardeenah [2009-01-21 03:09:00 +0000 UTC]

we have too many of these handsome birds around! I love their look and family chatter but they keep trying to make our house walls into storage containers!!! We had to replace three outside walls with new siding made out of concrete...I even mistook the FedEx delivery guy knocking on the door for a woodpecker pounding

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Zardeenah In reply to kayaksailor [2009-01-23 03:40:38 +0000 UTC]

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kayaksailor In reply to erene [2008-12-30 19:09:52 +0000 UTC]

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kayaksailor In reply to Cmac13 [2008-12-30 04:38:51 +0000 UTC]

he's hard not to get a handsome picture of

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kayaksailor In reply to The-Avel-Fairy [2008-12-29 04:26:30 +0000 UTC]

He's a pain but fun...they live in family groups and it's enjoyable to watch them swoop around between the trees and the telephone poles - "talking" to each other

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The-Avel-Fairy In reply to kayaksailor [2008-12-29 14:21:50 +0000 UTC]

Aww .

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kayaksailor In reply to Piombo [2008-12-29 03:50:21 +0000 UTC]

they are!!!

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kayaksailor In reply to davincipoppalag [2008-12-29 02:40:26 +0000 UTC]

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davincipoppalag In reply to kayaksailor [2008-12-29 09:27:20 +0000 UTC]

Heheheeh

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kayaksailor In reply to ParadigmParadox [2008-12-28 23:36:06 +0000 UTC]

Struttin' in style! (thanks for the faves )

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kayaksailor In reply to bear48 [2008-12-28 23:38:04 +0000 UTC]

10-15 feet? I'm bad with guessing distances but he's in the branches of the oaktree that hangs over the deck so he's quite close...

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bear48 In reply to kayaksailor [2008-12-28 23:39:20 +0000 UTC]

Sweet

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kayaksailor In reply to TimLaSure [2008-12-28 23:15:00 +0000 UTC]

We're trying to discourage them from hanging around the house - they're still trying to hide their acorns in the walls but I do enjoy them in the tree

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TimLaSure In reply to kayaksailor [2008-12-28 23:19:59 +0000 UTC]

I had that problem when I lived in the woods. My wife at the time worked steady midnights and slept all day....well, I mean she tried to

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kayaksailor In reply to TimLaSure [2008-12-28 23:30:25 +0000 UTC]

they do tend to be alarm clocks for us, too! Not so bad now that the sun comes up around 8 but it was the pits when they'd start pounding at about 5 Since we put up the 'hardy board' siding they've not been as numerous but habit is a hard thing to break!

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