Letter of the week
Electric dreams
PERHAPS I can help Hilke Fisher (Letters, November 2). When we moved into a thatched cottage 13 years ago, we had the same attention from a very persistent green woodpecker. As the house was in need of renovation, we happened to have the electrician in at the same time as the woodpecker was excavating the wood and plaster. The electrician discovered that the house was not earthed properly and the moment he rectified that, the pecking stopped. It has never happened since. Someone suggested to us that woodpeckers can sense the vibration of the electric current and mistake that for the movement of grubs.
Susie Carrington, Suffolk
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