Date:         Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:05:37 -0500
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From:         Les Eastman <les@BIRDTREKS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Question on Woodpeckers
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Gema Crystal wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>   I've had a couple of Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Downy Woodpeckers, 
> and now a White-breasted Nuthatch couple, at my house for a while now. 
> How can you tell if they're nesting? Where are their nest? We've been 
> waiting for babies for a while.

If you have suet, they will probably bring the young to it. I had all three of these species at my house last year. The woodpeckers brought the young to the suet and the nuthatches were getting a beak full of suet and flying back into the woods where I could see them feeding it to their young.

Les

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Les Eastman
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Havre de Grace, MD

The eagle looked down on the river below
And he wrapped his wings round him and he fell like a stone
And the big salmon fought but the talons held true
And he shuddered as the world turned from silver to blue
                               Steve Earle

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