"Judith in France" wrote in message
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On Aug 12, 1:23 pm, "Spider" wrote:
"Judith in France" wrote in
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On Aug 12, 12:52 pm, "Spider" wrote:
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Woodpeckers *love* fat balls, esp. the huge ones. An incidental bonus is
that the ground feeders get the crumbs after the W'pecker has hammered
them
to pieces.

Spider

Spider, oh exalted knowledge of all stuff, yes, I am being sincere, I
have learned a lot of stuff from your postings,

:~) Blush! Ooooh, I've gone all over unnecessary!

tell me, a bird, pecking a hole in a bird box to get to the chicks inside,
would that
be a woodpecker?

Yes, it's certainly possible. I've seen the Greater Spotted Woodpecker at
a
nest box in my garden. I asked the Warden of the local wood about it and
he
wasn't in the least surprised. I didn't know whether to be glad I'd seen
'Woody', or to feel sorry for the chicks. (Typical wild life
non-intervention dilema).

As you can tell, I don't know one bird from another,
I even got a gull and a pigeon mixed up the other day.

:~)! Well, the silly things will all have beaks, won't they?! ... and they
all look the same after a glass of red wine. It's time you dropped a hint
about a good bird book for Christmas.

Spider

Judith

Yes, they all have beaks and two legs, how on earth am I supposed to
know!!! No more books please, I have a tome that I bought to help
identify mushrooms, unfortunately the colours in the book don't always
match the mushroom.

Judith

Quite. I have that problem with mushroom ident books, but I have one or two
decent bird books which I find quite helpful. Even so, I occasionally get
muddled.
Well, I'm off to do some gardening now.
All the best,
Spider