Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:48:21 -0500 Reply-To: paulas@eols.com Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paula Sullivan Subject: Re: redbellied behavior MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Red-bellied Woodpecker which regularly comes to my feeder takes the sunflower seeds to a wedge-shaped slot he has made in the wooden gatepost of my fence. I thought he was stashing them there, but on inspection it appears to be just a place that he uses to anchor a seed as he opens it. I know Red-bellieds also cache seeds as some of you have described, but I thought it was interesting that they also devise creative ways to facilitate opening seeds. Paula Sullivan Alexandria, VA paulas@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================