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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01CFBB08.19310850 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Brian, woodpeckers, nut hatches and even squirrels enlarge the house = doors around here. We simply make a new faceplate with the hole the size = wanted and it works well.=20 Marg Millard, Queens ................................................................... Over the past decade we=E2=80=99ve had Black-capped Chickadees nesting = about every 2nd year in a bird-house in our backyard in West End = Halifax=E2=80=94but this is the first summer we=E2=80=99ve noticed the = bird-house hole getting larger, with its circumference increased, the = edges roughened. The other day I watched (& photographed) a Downy = Woodpecker pecking away at the hole=E2=80=99s edges, then poking its = head into the cavity (perhaps for grubs or insects, now that the = Chickadee nestlings & parents have vacated the house?). Is this common = woodpecker behavior? Does anyone else have woodpeckers (Downies, or = other species) enlarging their bird-house holes? Before next spring = we=E2=80=99ll be getting a new house to replace the old one, because the = hole is likely now big enough to allow Starlings to take the house over = from the Chickadees. Brian ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01CFBB08.19310850 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY dir=3Dltr> <DIV dir=3Dltr> <DIV style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000"> <DIV style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "> <DIV><FONT face=3DCalibri><FONT style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Brian, = woodpeckers, nut=20 hatches and even squirrels enlarge the house doors around here. We = simply make a=20 new faceplate with the hole the size wanted and it works well.=20 </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D3 face=3DCalibri>Marg Millard, Queens</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DCalibri><FONT=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: = 12pt">...................................................................= </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DCalibri><FONT style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Over the past = decade we=E2=80=99ve=20 had Black-capped Chickadees nesting about every 2nd year in a bird-house = in our=20 backyard in West End Halifax=E2=80=94but this is the first summer = we=E2=80=99ve noticed the=20 bird-house hole getting larger, with its circumference increased, the = edges=20 roughened. The other day I watched (& photographed) a Downy = Woodpecker=20 pecking away at the hole=E2=80=99s edges, then poking its head into the = cavity (perhaps=20 for grubs or insects, now that the Chickadee nestlings & parents = have=20 vacated the house?). Is this common woodpecker behavior? Does anyone = else have=20 woodpeckers (Downies, or other species) enlarging their bird-house = holes? Before=20 next spring we=E2=80=99ll be getting a new house to replace the old one, = because the=20 hole is likely now big enough to allow Starlings to take the house over = from the=20 Chickadees.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DCalibri><FONT style=3D"FONT-SIZE: = 12pt"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DCalibri><FONT=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: = 12pt">Brian</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01CFBB08.19310850--
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