Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 08:48:03 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sherry Peruzzi Subject: Woodpecker question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A downy woodpecker has discovered that a roof makes a nice, loud noise when drummed upon, and since our peanut and suet feeders are so handy, he's decided our roof is a convenient place to drum. At first we thought it was cute that a downy was drumming on the house, but he sometimes starts pretty early in the morning, and we're beginning to worry about the roof, so it doesn't seem so cute any more. Will a woodpecker drumming on asphalt shingles harm the roof? We just replaced this roof less than a year ago, and we don't want to have to do again for the next 24 years! And how do we discourage him from drumming on our roof? Thanks for whatever help you can give me. Sherry ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================