From: "Mark" 

We had one of those pileated woodpeckers in our neighborhood way way back
when, he was one loud s.o.b.! 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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>I haven't seen my pair of Blue Bird's at all this year, guess someone
> probably got one of them  (I had a pair that nested outside my work
> window for the last 3 years or so.)
>
> I did get a batch of Cardinals just outside my front door at home this
> year, these guys really leave the nest quickly! (+3 also)
>
> I blocked up where the Doves were nesting this year, it got to be too
> much of a mess to clean up -- 3 batches each year for the last 3 years
> and their droppings on my porch was enough to tell them to move on.
>
> One very special things about South Carolina is quantity and quality
> of the fauna!
>
> I got to see my first Pileated Woodpecker a few months ago. A Pileated
> Woodpecker is a very large (2nd's largest Woodpecker), pretty close to
> crow or raven sized and not a beauty to look at -- very primitive
> looking)
>
> He was digging bugs out of a neighbor's tree -- it's quite amazing
> just how efficient he was in knocking chunks of wood out of that tree.
>
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
>
>
> at all thisOn Thu, 10 May 2007 11:37:30 -0400, Richard B.
>  wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:11:23 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.nypost.com/seven/05102007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/duty_to_the_
future_opedcolumnists_rupert_murdoch.htm
>>>"TODAY, I am announcing our intention to be
carbon-neutral, across all
>>>our
>>>businesses, by 2010. "
>>>
>>>I give up .
>>
>>Lemmings are proof that evolution is indeed theory.
>>
>>I bet we were "carbon neutral" if not carbon--surplus
long before the
>>nitwits even started the current fear-mongering.
>>
>>Btw, my bluebirds raised their first family of the spring and have
>>flown away...waiting to see if they nest again.  Got some tasty
>>mealworms in the refrigerator if anyone is hungry.  One of the cats
>>killed a cedar waxwing that apparently was visiting the possum dish in
>>the bushes, circle of life, but +3. 
>>
>>- Richard

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