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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (164419)	6/23/2008 11:13:44 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

There's probably a little bit of truth in all of those possibilities. Woodpeckers have a sort of ecological hierarchy. They will take advantage of holes pecked by other birds, and other cavity nesters like squirrels will move in too. In the wild, they often use dead trees or snags for their pecking, instead of wood siding. The biggest woodpeckers use the biggest snags, and all other woodpeckers can use them too. That's why we had to manage for a minimum number of dead trees or snags in the forest. If we met the minimum requirements for the pileated woodpecker, the smaller birds were satisfied too. I've seen lots of cedar trees with very old woodpecker holes in dead wood on live trees with new green wood growing around it.