Yellow bellied sapsuckers do the same thing around here quite often, but
more often rap on the steel tower legs and deck railings.
David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Leigh Sedgwick
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 19:31
> To: Reicher, James; towertalk@contesting.com; k3nd@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Woodpeckers and Antennas
>
> Woodpeckers hit anything that makes a big "noise" to attract a
> mate....guys,
> the woodies are just trying to get laid. Kinda like a drummer on MTV
> :-)....
>
> 73 de Mike
> K7PI
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reicher, James" <JReicher@hrblock.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>; <k3nd@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Woodpeckers and Antennas
>
>
> > Great thread, so far :)
> >
> > About 20 years ago, I moved to a house in a semi-rural lake community
> > (600 acres of water), surrounded on 3 sides by woods. Because of the
> > lake and spending lots of time in the yard, many residents installed an
> > outdoor telephone bell, to let them easily here the phone ringing.
> >
> > Upon moving in, and being completely unencumbered by HOAs and CC&Rs, I
> > immediately put up a tower, supported by a house bracket, just outside
> > my bedroom.
> >
> > One morning, I awoke to the sound of a telephone bell. I reached for
> > the phone, picked up the receiver and heard a dial tone. Yet, the bell
> > kept ringing. Then, with my head still foggy from sleep, it hit me...
> > this house had no such outdoor ringer.
> >
> > I went outside to investigate.
> >
> > I kept hearing the "phone" ring, then I got around to the tower. There
> > was a Flicker woodpecker, pounding away at the leg of my Rohn 25G.
> > Apparently he thought it was pretty tasty because he kept waking me up
> > about the same time every morning for 3 months.
> >
> >
> >
> > 73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO
> >
> > Light travels faster than sound... This is why some people appear
> > bright until you hear them speak.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:34:53 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: GALE STEWARD <k3nd@yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Woodpeckers and Antennas
> > To: towertalk reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
> > Message-ID: <978993.81236.qm@web50708.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >
> > Ok guys, time for a new thread. This was a new one on
> > me.
> >
> > I have a bit of woods on my property and throughout
> > the years have seen and heard various woodpeckers
> > pecking away at dead trees. It very common to hear
> > them in the morning as I'm walking to the car to leave
> > for work. This morning as I was walking out the
> > driveway, I heard a metallic "rattle" of sorts like
> > I'd never heard. It was dead calm so it wasn't a wind
> > related issue. I looked up the tower and there was a
> > woodpecker sitting on the boom of the 40-2CD. As I
> > watched, he lowered his head and pecked the boom of
> > the antenna. It was quite loud but he/she wasn't fazed
> > in the least and continued, on and off, for several
> > minutes and then flew back into the woods. In all the
> > years that I've had towers and antennas in the air,
> > that was a first! Maybe the uncommomly hot
> > temperatures in this part of the country are to blame.
> > It's certainly taking it's toll of the mental
> > abilities of some of the people!
> >
> > Maybe I need a plastic owl up there!
> >
> > 73, Stew K3ND
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