Yep.  Saw that about the woodpeckers on Florida Today.  They tend to get 
sawdust and such impacted into the nostrils on the beak, and by tapping the 
metal street lamp they can get the dust out.  
    We have so many kinds of birds out here that it's not funny.  We get 
nearly all of the birds as we live right on a marshy area.  Were the Saint 
John's river goes into Lake Poinsette.  We get the pygmy owls, the barn owls, 
kestrels, doves, cardinals, grackles, and a host of other birds out here all 
the time.  We get the king fishers, and the bats, though these aren't birds 
in actuality, too.  I saw the starlings out over the water today skimming for 
bugs.  You can tell them from other birds by the way their wings are shaped 
while spread, and the way the tail is split down the middle to form a 'v' 
shape.  
    We also have ducks, geese, and a host of other water birds here.  Like 
the blue heron, the white heron, the egrets, ibis, and the asiatic stork.  
Which is one of the ugliest birds ever created by the gods.  Also pidgeons, 
sea gulls, and pelicans.  You see them doing a low level flight over the 
house sometimes.  We also have the cormorants who sit on our boat dock roof 
to dry their wings while they eat their catch of fresh water fish and musels. 
 
    Of course this doesn't even mention the gators, the turtles, the fish, 
and the snakes.  
                             Bright Blessings
                             Kat
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