[EBB Sightings] Rossmoor takes aim at pesky woodpeckers

More on the Rossmoor woodpeckers: http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_10985480

"Beeman said Rossmoor maintenance managers told him that it required too much labor for someone to climb up a ladder to change the batteries...."  ??!!

"...erect a decoy tree..." ?    Maybe even many dead trees, "planted" in the neighborhood ?

"...bringing in a federal hunter soon after receiving U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permits to kill as many as 50 acorn woodpeckers on condition that nonlethal methods are tried first."  Seems as though the requirement to try nonlethal methods first was just a bit of smoke and mirrors; I wonder what the full text and intent of that requirement by F&WS was ?

Peter

At 06:48 08/11/15, I wrote:
>See Gary Bogue's counterpoint  on the Rossmoor acorn woodpeckers in yesterday's Contra Costa Times:
>http://www.contracostatimes.com/garybogue/ci_10979653?nclick_check=1
>I wonder what kind of "real" (non-lethal) solution they might have come up with for those $170,000 they spent flailing and repairing.... ?
>Killing mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, children --perennial families, at random, not "just" woodpeckers.  As Gary asked, "Why do we let these things happen?"
>Peter
>At 21:04 08/11/14, Joseph Morlan wrote:
>>Article in today's SF Chronicle:
>>
>>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/14/BA5U1449PD.DTL