It's like this talk about blue jays cursed me! Today the jays are out in force and they've commandeered all three feeding areas. When I first noticed the unusual activity, I thought I saw a new blue woodpecker because it was hopping around the tree and pecking like one, but when it came around, it was a blue jay, eating all the woodpecker suet I'd shoved into knotholes around the tree.

They are currently dive bombing the cardinals on the feeders they are too big to perch on. I put out special feed just for the jays and they've been decent all through winter until now!!

You're right, of course. But as a town mouse myself, I can't help but shudder at the thought of the great outdoors myself. It's pathetic, I know!
>> ^Sagemind:

Ants should start respecting nature by stopping digging all those holes.
Beavers should start respecting nature by stopping building those dams.
Termites should start respecting nature by not building all those hills,
Bees, Hornets and Wasps should start respecting nature by not building hives everywhere.
Woodpeckers should start respecting nature by not pecking holes in every tree they see.
etc...

So long as you don't add apostrophe-s to words that don't need them, you can run all the channels you like.

he-he-he haa-haa <think Woody woodpecker>

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The socio-genetic experiment has worked well-Gone are the days of bashing people over thehead with mallets and blowing them up with TNT-I watched Sesame Street for the musical numbers-The best cartoons were ones with no message whatsoever rather, the renderings and animation always held preeminence over the scripting. Mornings before public school programming were spent with the 3 stooges and Bugs, Woody Woodpecker and re-runs of Twilight zone and Outer Limits at night...

I grew up listening to music more that suckling of of the cathode ray nipple-Lot's of Zappa, obscure garage bands, and selective pop. Television was clear as a fucking bell to me- An insidious programming glow for those whose minds were already forming into a mass of putty easily manipulated and influenced to do the bidding of the advertisers, financiers, and criminal politicians bent on turning everyone into easily managed robots.(I did watch every Charlie's Angels episode each week, and had posters of all of em, on the wall opposite the black light posters!)

Fast-forward to the now and it would seem that the shit worked better than expected. The last couple of generations are as gullible and susceptible as ever to the machine.

Art, music, performance, and the artisan trades are dying-the third-world is polluting the first(by design), and regurgitated, hackneyed scripts have replaced what was once a higher more inspired art.

More power to ya BF, as you do battle in the exclusive arena you have chosen....The passion is what is important.

According to a comment here: "The Olive Whipsnake of South America is a member of the family Coulibridae - a large family of non-venomous snakes that includes more familiar species like corn snakes, garter snakes, gopher snakes, and most of the other small non-venomous snakes."

If that's true, the bird wouldn't have died from any venom in the bites, so as long as it didn't receive any major physical injuries it was probably ok. It's offspring were probably lunch though.

Great video!

What happened then? Woodpecker lost?

Olive whipsnake, chironious fuscus
The Woodpecker is: Crimson crested woodpecker


and someone save that woodpecker!~ seriously you are just standing there

I saw a woodpecker do this on a streetlight near my house during easter. I suspect they just like the sound; maybe they use pecking to signal territory ownership like other birds use song?

You should get a load of the flowers I've woodpeckered.

Industrious freakin' woodpecker!

Look, you're obviously of the opinion that exposing your children to this level of violence at this age it ok. I completely disagree.

As I said in a previous post, people can grab stats to back up almost any viewpoint, but here is a roundup of many studies on the effects on children of violence.

It has some very choice experiments:

"In 1956, researchers took to the laboratory to compare the behaviour of 24 children watching TV. Half watched a violent episode of the cartoon Woody Woodpecker, and the other 12 watched the non-violent cartoon The Little Red Hen. During play afterwards, the researchers observed that the children who watched the violent cartoon were much more likely to hit other children and break toys.

Six years later, in 1963, professors A. Badura, D. Ross and S.A. Ross studied the effect of exposure to real-world violence, television violence, and cartoon violence. They divided 100 preschool children into four groups. The first group watched a real person shout insults at an inflatable doll while hitting it with a mallet. The second group watched the incident on television. The third watched a cartoon version of the same scene, and the fourth watched nothing.

When all the children were later exposed to a frustrating situation, the first three groups responded with more aggression than the control group. The children who watched the incident on television were just as aggressive as those who had watched the real person use the mallet; and both were more aggressive than those who had only watched the cartoon."

You think that this does nothing to him, and he is a well rounded kid. And he may well be... but why does he need to be exposed to any of this stuff in the first place? Why are you playing these games when he is awake and able to see and join in, why is he being exposed, even unintentionally to horror films?

I really hope that he turns out to be a great adult, but you're stacking thins up against him. You, and others here seem to forget just how young 4/5 really is, and seem hell bent on them growing up as quickly as possible.

Others too here are all on about 'you can bubble wrap your kids and protect them from everything'. Well, duh, of course you can, let them play, let them get hurt, let them experience play with other kids and the conflicts and such that come out of that, but do they really need, AT FIVE, to be exposed to violent games? Really? You think that in his mind he doesn't see people getting shot? OK then.

There seems to be a pretty good split here on those who think this is awesome, and those who don't... but I think a bunch of those that think it's awesome fail to realize how young 5 really is. That's my point... 5, (and 4 from your other video) is too darn young for these games, nothing of the sort of 'violent video games are evil' or anything like that. Just you need to be old enough to be able to handle them properly, and I don't think you can do that until you're much older than 5.