[cmeisenzahl]

So Monday morning I'm working in the kitchen. I hear strange knocking near the back of the house. No one seems to be out there. I walk outside to take a look and what do I discover?

Three woodpeckers having at the side of the house!!! ;-)

I wonder if they're just interesting in nesting in the wood? Are they randomly looking for bugs? Or do they know there are bugs in the wood and going after them?

[design219]

Call a termite exterminator. Woodpeckers can hear bugs in wood, or so I've been told.

But take a few pics first.

[brassplayersrock²]

Did you know that wood peckers actually wrap their tongues around their brains when pecking so their brain doesn't shake?

[turtle777]

This thread has potential.

-t

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

This thread has potential.

-t

Predictable.

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Predictable.

Cheer up, grouchy, it's the holidays!

[design219]

Woodpecker is one of the best names in the animal kingdom.

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² 

Did you know that wood peckers actually wrap their tongues around their brains when pecking so their brain doesn't shake?

Googled for this information and found proof that evolution doesn't exist !!

Why do woodpeckers peck wood?, to get to the insects underneath the bark. But the complexity and design in a woodpecker is a testament to its Designer and an enigma to evolutionists.

The multiply features needed for a woodpecker to function successfully are remarkable. A woodpecker's feet are unlike other bird's feet because they have opposing talons and are designed to grip bark. Woodpeckers have extremely acute hearing and are capable of hearing bugs crawling under bark. Also powerful muscles and a tough beak are necessary to produce the tremendous force needed to break thru the bark of a tree. But while the woodpecker is pounding away at the bark, its brain is being subjected to hundreds of pounds of force. Any other bird's brain would be turned to mush, but a woodpecker's brain has a cushion that absorbs this pounding.

After the hole is drilled into the tree, how does the woodpecker get the bug out? It can't grab it with its beak, because its beak is the same size as the hole. What it does is to insert its long, sticky tongue, which is three times longer than its beak, into the hole, catch the insect, pull it out and eat it. But where does it put its tongue when it's not using it? It's too long to keep in its beak, but it can't be left hanging out. What the woodpecker does is to stick its tongue into a nostril, up inside its skull and wrap its tongue around its brain case.

The woodpecker is an example of what is known as perfection of the organism. Such an organism is one in which several traits exist that are interdependent on each other and would be useless or even harmful if these traits were not fully developed from the beginning.

For instance a long tongue would be a serious problem, unless there was a place to put it, but a space in the skull is useless unless there was a tongue to stick up there. A powerful beak would be worse than useless without a brain cushion to absorb the force of each blow. What is seen in the woodpecker, as well as in other creations such as the bombardier beetle or the eye, perfection of the organism, is clear evidence of design.

The interdependent parts of these organisms, with all of the complex information needed to form them, simply could not arise by random chance that is at the very heart of evolutionism.

Perfection of the organism is a science fact that refutes evolutionism and points to the reality of the Creator. Evolutionists like to cloak themselves in scientific language, but God tells us in the Bible what is truly in their hearts.

From here.

I just LOVE the MacNN Lounge.

[LegendaryPinkOx]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

From here.

Hehe good one. But no...

[SpaceMonkey]

Woodpeckers aren't necessarily pecking on your house to find insects (some do it for sort of territorial reasons), although if you have 3 of them there at once it makes insects more likely.

[IceEnclosure]

I've seen them peck at a plastic light fixture on a street lamp for days. To be fair, this bird may have had a shorter tongue than other woodpeckers.

[brassplayersrock²]

mattyb:

see what happens when you don't believe me?

[mattyb]

I believe EVERYTHING in the MacNN Lounge !!!

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by design219 

Woodpecker is one of the best names in the animal kingdom.

I'm fond of the titmouse myself.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by design219 

Woodpecker is one of the best names in the animal kingdom.

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

I'm fond of the titmouse myself.

Pfff, that's all nothing compared to the Naked Mole Rat. Best animal name EVAR.



-t

[design219]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Pfff, that's all nothing compared to the Naked Mole Rat.

Chicks prefer a wood pecker.

[brassplayersrock²]

if chicks only preferred wood peckers, then the human race would cease to exist.

[design219]

... as opposed to the way Turtle is holding his little naked mole rat.

[NobleMatt]

i never know that a) woodpeckers were so advanced at that b) such a convocation on a mac forum could be so interesting

[Railroader]

Gamecock

FTW

[design219]

Originally Posted by crazyreaper 

i never know that a) woodpeckers were so advanced at that b) such a convocation on a mac forum could be so interesting

Did you know a convocation is also a collective noun for eagles.

[mattyb]

Design219 and brassplayersrock² are kicking ASS !!!!!

[KeyLimePi]

Originally Posted by design219 

Woodpecker is one of the best names in the animal kingdom.

oxpecker is pretty good, too.

[jojo gunne]

So does peckerhead mean one has a cushioned brain and a long tongue?

[ThinkInsane]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure 

I've seen them peck at a plastic light fixture on a street lamp for days. To be fair, this bird may have had a shorter tongue than other woodpeckers.

I awoke to one outside my window one morning hammering the hell out of a steel drain pipe. It sound like machine gun fire. I stuck my head out the window and yelled "SERIOUSLY?" at it. It just stared at me with this "You want some? look on its stupid little face before deciding to ignore me all together and get back to work. I gave serious consideration to just shooting the thing, but eventually it decided the whole endeavor was futile and split.

[zro]

A few years ago there was one that would visit the top of my swamp cooler first thing in the morning. The noisy little SOB. He also drilled a hole between the overhang and the wall into the crawl space.

Little bastards have all but killed a mesquite tree in my backyard. They stuff the seed pods under the peeling bark and go to work on them and the tree.

Oddly enough, I still think they're cool.