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Not only is the black and white woodpecker content with taking our hazelnuts...

It has started visiting the feeder next to the bird table, for peanuts....

It isn't even all that worried about our presence..

If anything, it is quite brazen about it!

Well, make the most of them, Woody; they are only in the feeder to use them up!

Cherry Picker...

Our cherries are not plentiful again this year and this morning we caught our old enemy helping himself....

 Can you see who it is yet?

Yes; It's that pesky woodpecker we only ever see when there is food around...

There is only one solution. It worked last year with the Hazelnuts, tomorrow we will see if it works with the cherries!!!

If that fails then we will be trying our recipe for Stuffed Woodpecker! but this time it will be stuffed with cherries!

A bit of a surprise!

Last year we had a tree full of Hazelnuts... We did not manage to harvest any as the woodpecker, probably assisted by the squirrel managed to eat the lot!!! See here

This year, with the severe frosts, all the catkins shrivalled and died before the leaves even appeared on the tree so we assumed that we would have no hazelnuts at all.

What do we know...

The tree appears to have the start of small hazelnuts... Amazing... unless of course they all fall off!

If they do mature we will be ready for that pesky woodpecker this year...

First step - a scarecrow made from the big yellow waterproof Elizabeth modeled here. I suggested she could be the scarecrow but *?!!*?!!!**??! was all I  got.

Second step - Old CD's hung in the tree.

Third step - One of my old jumpers hung in the tree.

Fourth step - an air rifle and stuffed woodpecker... Bon appetit.

If any of our readers have any more ideas we would be only too pleased to try them...