{"id":2258,"date":"2007-06-09T01:20:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T01:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/06\/rescuing-woodpeckers.html"},"modified":"2007-06-09T01:20:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T01:20:23","slug":"rescuing-woodpeckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/06\/rescuing-woodpeckers.html","title":{"rendered":"Rescuing Woodpeckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, on my way home from speaking at the Spiritual Formation Forum in Milwaukee (more about that later), I got a frantic call from our home from a man who is working on our windows. Cliff Peterson informed me of a &#8220;disaster.&#8221; A large tree had fallen on our neighbors&#8217; home. Norm, his son, promptly went over to make sure Mrs. Kruckman was OK, and she was. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a picture of the tree &#8230; which had another &#8212; less important &#8212; interest for us.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-001.jpg\" title=\"woodpecker-001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-001.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"woodpecker-001.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI informed them and the workers who eventually came to the home that there was a Hairy Woodpecker family in that tree.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/wikipecker.jpg\" title=\"wikipecker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/06\/wikipecker.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"wikipecker.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThey said they&#8217;d do their best to save that portion of the tree, which they did. We asked them to lean it against our fence, but I&#8217;m now wondering where best to put it. Here are a few pictures of the shank they saved, and within one hour Mrs. Woodpecker was swiping food from our feeder and heading back to her frightened little nest of three woodies &#8212; sorry for the blurriness.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-002.jpg\" title=\"woodpecker-002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-002.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"woodpecker-002.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-011.jpg\" title=\"woodpecker-011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-011.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"woodpecker-011.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-024.jpg\" title=\"woodpecker-024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-024.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"woodpecker-024.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-025.jpg\" title=\"woodpecker-025.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/06\/woodpecker-025.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"woodpecker-025.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, on my way home from speaking at the Spiritual Formation Forum in Milwaukee (more about that later), I got a frantic call from our home from a man who is working on our windows. 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