[va-bird] Fw: Re: Backyard Tree died, should I cut it down?

From: Sandy_Spencer@xxxxxxx
To: foxchap76@xxxxxxx, va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:47:01 -0400

We have a big snag of a sycamore in the front lawn of the Refuge office
that is/has been used by  honeybees, woodducks, and northern flickers.
Every year the activity on or in the tree entertains and enthuses us.  If
it's safe to do so, keep it!

Sandy C. Spencer, Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Eastern Virginia Rivers National Wildlife Refuge Complex
    (Rappahannock River Valley, James River,
     Presquile Island, and Plum Tree Island NWRs)
P.O. Box 1030
Warsaw, VA  22572
804/333-1470
804/333-3396 (fax)
Sandy_Spencer@xxxxxxx
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Hi Paul,
     If the tree is in a safe location where no houses or property are in
jeopardy then leave it.  It will definitely attract Woodpeckers, also if
you believe in natural selection, hawks will perch to see what is in the
neighborhood.  I had a tree that died and it attracted owl, flickers, red
belly, hawk as well as nuthatch,and creeper. I am sure there were more
feeding off that tree.  It finally came down after about 7 years.  I loved
that tree.
Regards
       Jack

From: foxchap76@xxxxxxx
Date: 2005/05/26 Thu AM 09:23:12 EDT
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [va-bird] Backyard Tree died, should I cut it down?

I have a large tree that died over the past winter. it's about two feet

in diameter and about 40 feet high. Are there any "habitiat" reasons for
not cutting it down? I was thinking of cropping it at about 20-25 feet, and
leaving about three feet on each of the five branches that would remain. I
think I read somewhere that this would encourage woodpeckers (and others?).
No birds are currently nesting in the tree. Any ideas or resources you can
direct me to?

We have a quarter-acre lot in Arlington that backs to a substantial

neighboring yard, and two of the other four trees of equal size in the yard
are mature and in decline.

thanks,

Paul Blakely
Arlington

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