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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Greetings,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> For folks with woodpecker pecking questions, check out these weblinks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/livingwith_wildlife/woodpeckers/index.html">http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/livingwith_wildlife/woodpeckers/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/assistance/backyard/livingwith_wildlife/woodpecker-control.pdf">http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/assistance/backyard/livingwith_wildlife/woodpecker-control.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Also the book ,
<b>Woodworking for Wildlife </b>by Carrol Henderson MNDNR-Nongame Wildlife Program<b> </b>includes plans for woodpecker “bongo boxes” to provide alternative sites for males drumming to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">attract females and defend territories. This book is available through Minnesota’s bookstore
<a href="http://www.comm.media.state.mn.us/bookstore/mnbookstore.asp?page=viewbook&BookID=68733&stocknum=275">
www.comm.media.state.mn.us/bookstore/mnbookstore.asp?page=viewbook&BookID=68733&stocknum=275</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">and other outlets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Mnbird [mailto:mnbird-bounces@lists.mnbird.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 20, 2016 4:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Betsy Kerr <bjkerr@umn.edu>; mnbird <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mnbird] woodpeckers pecking question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I have one that just made a new hole on a chickadee house just below the metal guard that protected the 1 1/8 in hole. I don't know why they do it, they just do. They have wrecked dozens of bird houses over the
years. I am going to replace this one next spring with one of those houses made from composites. That will be the end of that (I hope). As for now, the male downy is happily going into the house every twilight for a good night's sleep. It's kind of like the
old Outhouse joke, it has more status because it's a two-holer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Don Grusing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"Betsy Kerr via Mnbird" <<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>><br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, October 20, 2016 1:32:23 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Mnbird] woodpeckers pecking question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Woodpeckers are currently pecking large holes in my sister's cedar-sided home in Pennsylvania, as they do every Spring and Fall. At the same time, a male Downy WP has been continually
pecking every morning on the face of one of our Bluebird houses (including on the metal hole guard). A female--I presume, his partner--has regularly roosted in the past in this box, as well as in the other one in our yard. My question is, why do they peck
on a birdhouse like this in the Fall? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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