{"id":1061354,"date":"2022-04-19T20:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/watch-s-largest-hockey-stick-under-attack-by-woodpeckers\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T20:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:20:44","slug":"watch-s-largest-hockey-stick-under-attack-by-woodpeckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/watch-s-largest-hockey-stick-under-attack-by-woodpeckers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: \u2018s largest hockey stick under attack by woodpeckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Worlds-largest-hockey-stick-under-attack-by-woodpeckers.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">April 19 (UPI) \u2014<\/span> Officials in a British Columbia town said they are looking into options for protecting the world\u2019s largest hockey stick from a pair of destructive woodpeckers.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of North Cowichan said they started to see a pair of northern flickers, a type of woodpecker protected by the British Columbia Wildlife Act, perching on the 61,000-pound hockey stick outside the Cowichan Community Center in early April.\n<\/p>\n<p>One of the birds has been seen pecking holes in the stick, which bird experts said likely means the avian is building a nest.<\/p>\n<p>Community center staff plugged the first hole with steel wool, but the birds had removed it a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>Lori Iannidinardo, chair of the Cowichan Valley Regional District, said a bucket truck will be brought in soon so officials can investigate the holes. Officials said the birds will be left alone for the season if they have established a nest, but if the nest is not yet completed they will look into methods for urging the birds to consider a new location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19 (UPI) \u2014 Officials in a British Columbia town said they are looking into options for protecting the world\u2019s largest hockey stick from a pair of destructive woodpeckers. Residents of North Cowichan said they started to see a pair of northern flickers, a type of woodpecker protected by the British Columbia Wildlife Act, perching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}