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DAN ROTH wrote:

> Hi all! I live in South Jersey, and I have been getting a lot of downy's
> lately. I am happy, for I really like woodpeckers. But, today I realized I
> have never gotten a hairy woodpecker. Is their something special I need to
> put out for them, or do they just not come around South New
> Jersey??
>
> -Dan

Dan,

You have to have the right habitat around you in order to get Hairy
Woodpeckers.  They inhabit woodlands.  If you are surrounded by urban sprawl
or extensive farmland with few trees you are not likely to get Hairys.

--
John J. Collins
Whitestone, NY
"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we
understand; we will understand only what we are taught."  (Senegalese
proverb.)

My Hairys always come to my peanut butter log I have up, I had a Red-bellied
show up there too once. Take a piece of branch that is about 5 to 7 inches thick
and about 2 feet long and take the bark off it so the Starlings cant cling to
it, them drill holes in it that are 1 1/2 to 2 inches across and deep enough to
fill with chunky style peanut butter. I buy the largest generic brand I can find
and the birds love it..


Andrew Longtin
New Hope, Minnesota
ALongtin *at* worldnet *dot* att *dot* net

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DAN ROTH wrote in message <38062D3B.ED6DA756@home.com>...
|Hi all! I live in South Jersey, and I have been getting a lot of downy's
|lately. I am happy, for I really like woodpeckers. But, today I realized
|I have never gotten a hairy woodpecker. Is their something special I
|need to put out for them, or do they just not come around South New
|Jersey??
|
|-Dan

Hi Dan:
They are there but are not really garden birds like Downys. Look for them in
areas of extensive woods and tall trees. A good park, state forest etc. They
do occasionally visit suet feeders so you may get lucky. ID is easy, same
plumage pattern but they are much bigger than a Downy, look especially at
the bill. If you can see the side tail edging notice the lack of black on
white striping on the Hairy. Voice is very similar to a Downy but 'bigger'
Luck
DAN ROTH <swmottr55@home.com> wrote in message
news:38062D3B.ED6DA756@home.com...
> Hi all! I live in South Jersey, and I have been getting a lot of downy's
> lately. I am happy, for I really like woodpeckers. But, today I realized
> I have never gotten a hairy woodpecker. Is their something special I
> need to put out for them, or do they just not come around South New
> Jersey??
>
> -Dan

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 19:16:56 GMT, DAN ROTH <swmottr55@home.com> wrote:

>Hi all! I live in South Jersey, and I have been getting a lot of downy's
>lately. I am happy, for I really like woodpeckers. But, today I realized
>I have never gotten a hairy woodpecker. Is their something special I
>need to put out for them, or do they just not come around South New
>Jersey??
>
>-Dan

Dan:
I lived for years in Northwest NJ (Sussex Co.) and had Hairy WPs as
well as Downys regularly at my feeders in the winter.  Try placing
your suet a distance from your seed feeders, preferably hanging from
large branches near the tree.

             Jack

"Chance favors the prepared mind"

>I have never gotten a hairy woodpecker. Is their something special I
>need to put out for them, or do they just not come around South New
>Jersey??

Both the Hairy and Downy are in the US all year wrong. You should have them.
However, in MN I have both, and right now I have only the Downy, they eat the
same thing, you do not have to do anything special. Once in awhile I will spot
a Hairy and then they leave, the Downys several are here and have been all
year. Do not have a answer.

Dan,
          I found out last week that the Hairys are sticking to the
back west side of my yard.  I now know they've been here all along
becuase I kept hearing a call that I couldn't quite ID.  I posted
about it here a few months ago, I said it sounded like the Downys but
was much louder, like weird laughter.  When I spotted the Hairys in
the back of the yard last week I stood watching them going up and down
all the tree trucks, but suddenly the female spotted me and let out
that loud weird laughter and took off for the hedge.   I assume
they're hanging around the back feeder where there's very little human
action.  I keep a suet feeder out there too, and I know 'someone' has
been snacking on it, it keeps going down and needing to be replaced.
I thought it was only the Nuthatches.

Anyhow, I do have a lot of trees in my yard, 5 maples, 8 pines,
several small sized berry trees.  But there are also lots of maples,
berch, etc. in the yard next to mine, there is no fence between the
yards so the birds act as if both are just one big wooded area.   The
tall hedges and small trees tend to block any attempt at an overall
view so goodness knows what else is hidding back there when I' m not
looking...;)

I think if you have Downys, Hairys can't be too far behind, they are
just shyer.

Lynda








On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 19:16:56 GMT, DAN ROTH <swmottr55@home.com> wrote:

>Hi all! I live in South Jersey, and I have been getting a lot of downy's
>lately. I am happy, for I really like woodpeckers. But, today I realized
>I have never gotten a hairy woodpecker. Is their something special I
>need to put out for them, or do they just not come around South New
>Jersey??
>
>-Dan