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Date: 2012-07-10 10:00 pm (UTC)Normally, the males hammer their territory-marking signal on the trunks of hollow trees. Except, one year, one flicker discovered that the cast iron, domed, cover of the BBQ grill made him sound like such a larger and more fearsome bird...
Father's problem was: the flicker's hammering signal, transferred to the new instrument, sounded exactly (in both pitch and duration/rhythm) like the ringing of the telephone on his bedside table...