In a message dated 5/12/00 10:56:35 AM Central Daylight Time,
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<< Remember: when you're talkin columns you've gotta keep your woodpecker
holes
 plugged. >>

Sparky,

I'll remember to keep my shrinkage under control. I'm ready for lesson
"Corinthian Column Plugging 102". How do you tell a woodpecker hole from any
other kind of hole? Serious, no joke. Is there any statistics on what species
of woodpecker make holes in wood columns and possilbe geographic distribution
of incidence? Why do woodpeckers peck holes in columns, as opposed to trees?
Do the columns fake them out with smells of bug rot? This all ties into my
obsession w/ Texian EIFSpeckers. I'm also interested in antying you have in
the library on subaqueous borers of Marine's piles.

Thanks,
Shaman