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Great photo, Lew! Yanno, every time I see or hear one of them I always think how good it would be if I could make my electronic's connections in the boat as solid as the nerve connections in their heads are.

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Yeah, it's hard to believe they can pound the trees as hard as they do without knocking their little brains loose. He was hammering a mile a minute when I took that pic and that's why his head looks fuzzy.

 

There's 3 of them around here I see all the time but this guy is determined to kill that tree of mine. All 3 of them were sitting side by side on a limb outside the window one day but by the time I got the camera they'd taken off.

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They're not the ones killing the tree. They're eating the "bugs" that are killing/killed the tree.

20 years of watching them in the yards both here and in Temagami..... it's a little of both!

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Yeah, it's hard to believe they can pound the trees as hard as they do without knocking their little brains loose. He was hammering a mile a minute when I took that pic and that's why his head looks fuzzy.

 

There's 3 of them around here I see all the time but this guy is determined to kill that tree of mine. All 3 of them were sitting side by side on a limb outside the window one day but by the time I got the camera they'd taken off.

 

Someone studying concussions or Parkinson's should be looking at them not humans.

I am glad to have one thing in common though - a functional pecker. (c'mon, someone had to write it)

Jim

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I hear ya Rob, but when that woody is pounding away on the tree with the chainsaw for a beak, and the woodchips are flying as he digs 2" wide holes, it's hard to think about the bugs :lol:

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I am glad to have one thing in common though - a functional pecker. (c'mon, someone had to write it)

Jim

 

maybe that's why woody appears to be smiling Jim LOL

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20 years of watching them in the yards both here and in Temagami..... it's a little of both!

A healthy tree can withstand a hole from a woodpecker. Woodpeckers will not put multiple holes in a tree unless they are finding food.

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