Matt / PA

We have a winner!!
(Greg sort of got it but wasn't specific enough)

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAbou...ecker_dtl.html

Greg / MO

Eh, fooey! I could have said Downy since I knew the hole was too small for a Pileated... I call "fowl"... Get it, talking about birds... fowl... foul... uh, never mind.

Big John

Geeeze, the bucks are snortin n scrapin, an tearin up trees, and Matts chasin round woodpeckers in his back yard !!!!! I think you've got a bad batch of perogies there buddy, or maybe you put some funny mushrooms on them.

NY Bowhunter

whatever it is, it's probably dead inside.[8D]

jmbuckhunter

Man I went to bed and couldn't sleep wandering what made that hole.Then I wake up a winner this morning. I will be watching my mailbox for the GRAND PRIZE!!! Hope it is something bowhunting related. Like that Antelope Hunt you went on all expenses paid.HAHAHA!!!

Matt / PA

No........I'm going to send you the stupid woodpecker so you can take care of him all winter. Maybe next spring a Bluebird will take over and I'll be a bonafide birdwatching dork.
I guess my recurve shooting is on hold anyway.

I watched that littleSOB out there crawling around, pecking a little here and there and thought..."Well that's pretty neat, a woodpecker keeps landing on my 3D target" (I'm a slow learner )

Big John,
Actually I just had some Rogies 2 days ago........smothered in butter and onions then pan fried. With a side of Antelope steak. Whoa nelly.[:-]

The moral of the story and what I want to know is, at what point does a woodpecker decide a deer has stood around long enough that he's going to try and make a home in it's neck?

ostdc

I can see that the bird site you linked is going to cost me some time. It's great!. Thanks!
Brian

Matt / PA

Anything I can do to help a fellow dork.

(Hey there really is such a thing as a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker!)

Greg / MO

He he... Oh yeah, I know all about that little sucker... Would you believe it's one of the only birds I was never able to kill with my BB gun? It became the "holy grail" of birds I was after during my very early teenage years.

rybohunter

I had to go back thru and search for this post to find the answer. I have tons of downy's that come to my feeders and stuff. I'm glad you helped me solve my mystery too.