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“We appreciate the time and attention that your Arbor Patrol team takes to maintain the overall health and appearance of the trees, bushes and general grounds. As they say, you can only have one first impression and the impression the grounds make on both residents and visitors alike is always positive thanks to your caring maintenance. Just as the trees continue to grow and blossom under your care, we hope our relationship with SavATree does the same.”
William Toedter
Southampton, NY
“After four different unsatisfactory visits with so-called arborists, I found SavaTree... I was most impressed with the professionalism of David [my arborists] and his colleagues. They were most knowledgeable, fair with their assessment about what needed to be done, yet very attuned with what my concerns. I highly recommend them without any hesitation. In a field where there is an abundance of folks looking to take advantage of consumers, SavaTree, David and crew strike me as incredibly honest and proud arborists who do a fantastic job.”
Debbie Durkin
Silver Spring, MD
“I am a new and highly satisfied customer of SavATree. For 50 years I have lived in the same house in the Greenhaven area, and in that time I have never had a tree company that gave me such fine service.”
Joan Kleinbard
Rye, NY
“It is always a pleasure working with SavATree as your company provides the best plant, tree and lawn health care that we have experienced at the Ives. Always professional, courteous and responsive to our needs, SavATree’s services have provided our employees and patrons with pleasant outdoor experiences in an insect free environment for several years.”
Kathleen G. Gallagher
Executive Director
The Charles Ives Center for the Arts
Danbury, CT
“For over 14 years, I have entrusted the care of my trees, plants and orchard to SavATree. Their highly qualified arborists have exacting standards and understand how to maintain the health and form of the various species of trees on my property. I admire the artistic skill that goes into the pruning and love the colorful blossoms, fruits and foliage that flourish as a result of their impeccable care.”
Martha Stewart
Katonah, NY
"Efficient, high quality, professional competence — all at a competitive sum. At first [Alison] Pottage won me over by her solid knowledge as an arborist, then the crew did their job to her specifications on our 60 to 70 foot oaks within a remarkable period of time -- and left the grounds quite clean.”
Bob Busser
Philadelphia, PA
Click here to read all testimonials“You take on a job, call it a problem, gigantic or small, and you go to it. True Professionals. I am at peace for having found SavATree. Sometimes bills are paid grudgingly. I pay with respect to a company whose pride lives up to its logo. It’s love of what you do and I thank you.”
Sam Fink
Great Neck, NY
People are often interested and sometimes irritated by the tap-tap-tap or noisy drumming made by woodpeckers striking their bills against trees or other objects. This loud, continuous pecking on hard surfaces is used by woodpeckers as a signal to announce territory and to attract mates while catching a bite to eat.
The flicker, a species of woodpecker which is just a tad larger than a robin, seeks to attract mates by rapidly drumming their bills against any object that returns a good, loud noise when struck. This may be a tree (preferably dead wood, since live wood makes less noise). But it is likely to be some other object such as the side of a house, a shed, a metal drainpipe or even the metal shade over an outdoor light. Flickers may start drumming in April; hairy woodpeckers, as early as January. All the homeowner can do is wait; the drumming will stop once they mate and complete their nest building.
A woodpecker moves along a tree branch or trunk giving occasional taps with its bill. After each tap it then appears to listen intently for an instant. It is hungry and wants to locate a delicious "grub" (the larval stage of an insect, often boring a tunnel inside the tree). Once the woodpecker detects the presence of an insect grub by its 'sonar', the bird sets vigorously to work battering its way into the bark and possibly even into the wood at that point...a hard way to earn a breakfast! It may knock off only a few chips of bark in several spots, often near a feeder. Or it may make a considerable hole.
If there is not an insect boring inside the tree, there is no meal to be had. After only a few exploratory taps, the woodpecker flies elsewhere. Since many bark beetles and borers attack only trees that are weakened, stressed or declining, your best defense against woodpeckers is to maintain high vigor in all of your trees. Some of the measures which will help keep your trees woodpecker-free include appropriate fertilization, watering mulching, protecting against defoliation by insect or disease and avoiding wounds to all above--or below-- ground parts. Prune out dying or dead branches and remove or replace dying or dead trees unless you want a refuge for woodpeckers. After all, they are very interesting creatures to watch!
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