We have lived just inside the edge of a 6-8 acre patch of woods for 15 years
and we have always had hairy woodpeckers at the feeder--until last year.
I haven't seen any this season, so far, in the yard, although they were all 
over
Turkey Point this fall.


--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato