Comments on: A New Resident http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2007/11/06/a-new-resident/ Backyard farming: organic gardening, chickens, bees, compost, and cooking. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:49:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Kelly http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2007/11/06/a-new-resident/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Kelly Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:49:07 +0000 http://blog.finebrand.com/?p=57#comment-20 Hmm. Maybe the Lowe's guy is sick of them drilling holes in his house? Perhaps you should tell him about all the ants they eat. Some friends of ours out in the gold country had lots of woodpeckers that would drill holes in their wood siding and stick acorns in the holes. Kind of cute until there got to be hundreds of holes, all letting water seep in when it rained. Hmm. Maybe the Lowe’s guy is sick of them drilling holes in his house? Perhaps you should tell him about all the ants they eat.

Some friends of ours out in the gold country had lots of woodpeckers that would drill holes in their wood siding and stick acorns in the holes. Kind of cute until there got to be hundreds of holes, all letting water seep in when it rained.

]]> By: Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2007/11/06/a-new-resident/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Rian Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:03:43 +0000 http://blog.finebrand.com/?p=57#comment-19 Funny, I was at the local hillbilly Lowe's here, and the guy tending the birdfood section got all crazed when I said I was looking for flicker food (peanut, suet cakes). "If it were up to me, I'd shoot them with a shotgun" he said. It's sort of rung in my head like a weird French movie since then. Shoot them? You would like to shoot all flickers? Wh... you... with a shotgun?... why on earth...? With a shotgun? And you work in the birdfood section? Funny, I was at the local hillbilly Lowe’s here, and the guy tending the birdfood section got all crazed when I said I was looking for flicker food (peanut, suet cakes). “If it were up to me, I’d shoot them with a shotgun” he said.

It’s sort of rung in my head like a weird French movie since then. Shoot them? You would like to shoot all flickers? Wh… you… with a shotgun?… why on earth…? With a shotgun? And you work in the birdfood section?

]]> By: Kelly http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2007/11/06/a-new-resident/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Kelly Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:56:17 +0000 http://blog.finebrand.com/?p=57#comment-18 Very cool! Flickers have such interesting markings. Unfortunately, I used to see them up close when my old cat used to catch them. Very cool! Flickers have such interesting markings. Unfortunately, I used to see them up close when my old cat used to catch them.

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