[NatureNS] Flicker/ flue lining

From: "Roland McCormick" <roland.mccormick@ns.sympatico.ca>
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 One of my friends was at his summer home on Brass Hill  last year when he 
heard a racket on his roof early one morning. He ran out to find about 
twenty flickers pecking away at his chimney.

Roland.( Barrington)

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From: "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:03 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Flicker/ flue lining


> Dear All,            May 9, 2007
>    We have been hearing strange noises starting May 3 nearly every day; 
> like 20 buckshot being poured onto sheet metal. The strange noise turned 
> out to be a Flicker (Sooty-Shafted probably) hammering on the stainless 
> steel flue liner. It usually gives 2 or 3 bursts and moves on so it took 
> some time to narrow it down.
>
>    We have not actually seen it hammering but the way it was hunched low 
> at the base of the metal pipe (top of chimney) this morning plus the fact 
> that we have  twice heard this noise when the fire was on suggests that it 
> hammers the vertical pipe just above the brick chimney top. Will check for 
> dents/ scrapes when I clean it next month.
>
> Yt, DW, Kentville
> 

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