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["Robert" <robt123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Birders. I live in east Memphis, Tennessee, inside the expressway which 
rings the city. This neighborhood was built in the 1950s, so the pine trees, 
the oak, and the magnolia in my yard are all probably more than 55 years 
old.  How old does a tree have to be to be considered "old-growth" ?

Our trees seem to attract lots of woodpeckers. There are the Downy 
Woodpeckers ( a male, a female, and a fledgling ) who come regularly for 
breakfast at my suet. We have two Red-Bellied Woodpeckers ( a male and a 
female ) which have drilled a hundred holes in my peanut butter log. And 
just this Sunday I was looking for warblers in the canopy of my pine trees 
and spotted a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ( red crown and red throat ). 
Way cool.

All this woodpecker activity is happening inside a major metropolitan city. 
I figure the woodpeckers are attracted to our 55 year old, bug-ridden ( easy 
to drill ? ) old-growth trees. Now I'm just waiting for an Ivory-Billed 
visitor to check out my woodpile... ha ha ha.
;-)
Robert Fowler
Memphis TN 


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