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I've heard them tapping on other people's fireplace chimney inserts, but I have a brick fireplace so I can't imagine what it sounds like inside. I find the woodpeckers cool to look at and to watch. I back up to woods and they'll come to a birdfeeder with seed in it, and they peck at it for a while then hop up the side of a tree, I guess to swallow. Or I can tell when they're going back to feed the kiddies because they peck at the seed more vigorously and fly off back to the nest. I have half a dozen poles in my garden for beans and I came home to find almost all the bark off them. I figured out they were loaded with grubs or something and the woodpeckers did me the favor of getting rid of them. It's also cool to watch the force with which they whack their beaks into a tree. How do you not get a concussion?
I also have those nasty blue jays, but yesterday might made right. I heard a terrible commotion in the trees and then all of a sudden a huge crow or raven comes flying out with two blue jays in hot pursuit dive bombing him. They were forcing him down and he's heading straight for me. He veered off at the last second and I could see he had two eggs in his mouth. I'm sure the blue jays gave up after a while and went and went back took it out on the robins.
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