Bless his little heart

[Oss]

We have a woodpecker that has been visiting

He likes to hammer away at the metal chimney cap on the roof

It sounds like a jackhammer in a construction site

I can open and close the flue and he will fly away or I can throw a stick towards him and he will fly away
but he always returns the next day to make his music

Perhaps he is in love with the sound he makes, to him maybe it is like the sound of a Valkyrie accelerating in the cool air down the highway

Regardless he should have a pretty good headache.  Maybe if one's brain is small enough one doesnt notice the headache from hitting your head against metal.

Could that explain congress?

[LTD]

That's hilarious good to know Im not the only one tortured by woodpeckers.

[old2soon]

       And while I am NOT sure I believe they-woody wood pecker-are federally protected. That beibg said I do on the other hand have an air pellet rifle that is quiet and is accurate!  Good luck with yer disillusioned Wood? pecker!  RIDE SAFE.

[Big Rig]

We have a woodpecker that has been visiting

He likes to hammer away at the metal chimney cap on the roof

It sounds like a jackhammer in a construction site

I can open and close the flue and he will fly away or I can throw a stick towards him and he will fly away
but he always returns the next day to make his music

Perhaps he is in love with the sound he makes, to him maybe it is like the sound of a Valkyrie accelerating in the cool air down the highway

Regardless he should have a pretty good headache.  Maybe if one's brain is small enough one doesnt notice the headache from hitting your head against metal.

Could that explain congress?

Oss, Unlike Congress...the woodpecker has a point...

[Psychotic Bovine]

I had one doing that to my chimney.  Inside the house it sounded like an impact wrench.  I went outside with my airsoft pistol and fired one plastic bb 2 inches below him, hitting the chimney.  He flew away and never returned.
My chimney has a small dent it in, but I don't really care.

[baldo]

My old school farmer grandfather used to put a red square or shingle in the vicinity of where a woodpecker would be a problem. It did work....

[Jess from VA]

Woodpeckers (I believe especially juvenile male ones) get completely fixated on a particular spot or object or, in my case my soft bark Nellie Stevens trees, and just keep coming back over and over again.  He was going to completely girdle my trees with artful strips of bark off all around the trunks, and after I couldn't run him off for more than 3 minutes (even with a hose blast), I ended his rampage.  Sorry buddy, those trees are nearly 30 years old and real beauties and I'm not letting you ruin them.  



Just like this. (and 4 old trees)



Once they get going on one, there is no stopping them (nicely).  And flys and bugs like the sap and lay eggs and there goes the tree.

Just to be clear, since woodpeckers are protected under both federal and state law,  I ended his rampage by having him served with a cease and desist order, with a strong letter threatening legal action in a tort suit for damages against him, his heirs and assigns.  That did the trick.

[Bighead]

Oss I got one just like him

[da prez]

  One of my customers has a cedar sided house. This is about three stories tall. It is painted , not natural. I was hire to patch the holes in the siding. I quit counting at 300. I worked all day and repaired everyone I saw.  I was working on another project when I heard the little bugger. I tossed a small piece of wood scrap at it. Flew away while I was working.  Later on I looked at the house and it had done more damage.  The owner , a retired leo issued an eviction notice. Don't ask, don't tell.
  I was told that if you hang a baited mouse trap from a string , it will 

                           da prez

[Fazer]

I have a cedar sided house that was being favored by little woodies.  I tried unsuccessfully with the pellet gun, but the little buggers were too skittish.  Had to patch the wood a couple of times and finally hung a fake owl on a chain that seems to be working.  (Didn't really want to shoot them anyway.)

[hubcapsc]

There's two kinds (that I know of) of redheaded woodpeckers in our woods,
a large kind and a smaller kind... a large one got up into our attic before the
eaves were closed in. I went up to see what was making all the racket, and
pretty soon the woodpecker was in the bedroom upstairs  ... the big kind is about
as big as a small chicken with big powerful wings and powerful other stuff...
I opened the double doors onto the porch and it was impressive watching
that sucker fly off into the woods at that perspective from just a few
feet away...

-Mike

[..]

There's two kinds (that I know of) of redheaded woodpeckers in our woods,
a large kind and a smaller kind... a large one got up into our attic before the
eaves were closed in. I went up to see what was making all the racket, and
pretty soon the woodpecker was in the bedroom upstairs  ... the big kind is about
as big as a small chicken with big powerful wings and powerful other stuff...
I opened the double doors onto the porch and it was impressive watching
that sucker fly off into the woods at that perspective from just a few
feet away...

-Mike

A Woody Woopecker?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=great+pileated+woodpecker&atb=v95-1&iax=images&ia=images

[Valkorado]

These are the common ones in our neck of ťhe woods - -  Western or Red Shafted Flicker.





They're tuff.   Don't ask me how I know.

[sandy]

woodpeckers hammer on metal to attract a mate. the more noise they make, the better chances of hooking up. it’s nature’s way of proving who has the bigger and harder pecker.

[Jess from VA]

woodpeckers hammer on metal to attract a mate. the more noise they make, the better chances of hooking up. it’s nature’s way of proving who has the bigger and harder pecker.

 

We have three types.

The regular ones:  (the ones that do all the damage)


The little downy woodpeckers:  My favorite; and I once watched a big red tailed hawk just drop down and snatch one off my dogwood and take him away for lunch.


And the prehistoric looking big Piliated woodpeckers.  They are pretty rare, and hard to find, and I've only seen 3 or 4 over the years, and if you go out to look at them they disappear.

[da prez]

  We have property in northern Wisconsin. Bonnie spotted a very large wood pecker and let me know. Before we could get a picture , it flew away. She looked it up in the bird book and indeed , it is quite rare.

                                            da prez

[The emperor has no clothes]

woodpeckers hammer on metal to attract a mate. the more noise they make, the better chances of hooking up. it’s nature’s way of proving who has the bigger and harder pecker.

I've tried that a few times. Don't get much sound with a wet noodle though. 

[cookiedough]

I like that shingle idea putting it on the metal with roof tar sealant enough to hold it in place at least.  that should last awhile until he hammers thru it eventually.  Less noise for sure

We do not have woodpecker issues but robin issues every single year.  The darn birds is WI states bird so illegal to shoot them (do not tell anyone...) but EVERY single year they make nests on front garage and back patio light fixtures.  I take the nest and toss it in field and very next day a new nest is build done that 4-5 times in a row you would think they would get the hint NO.   So, after 4th or so nest tossing in field,  I put duct tape on light fixture to the vinyl siding and solved that issue.

So, what do they do next?  NO JOKE,  build a nest under my truck front shock springs.  What next?  they build a nest several times under my rear bumper of my truck.  Had to put duct tape around the rear corner of my bumper of my truck taped to the undercarriage.    I swear robins are the dumbest birds around.    and they poop all over our vinyl siding horribly all spring/summer long. 

[Bighead]

There's two kinds (that I know of) of redheaded woodpeckers in our woods,
a large kind and a smaller kind... a large one got up into our attic before the
eaves were closed in. I went up to see what was making all the racket, and
pretty soon the woodpecker was in the bedroom upstairs  ... the big kind is about
as big as a small chicken with big powerful wings and powerful other stuff...
I opened the double doors onto the porch and it was impressive watching
that sucker fly off into the woods at that perspective from just a few
feet away...

-Mike

Mike we call that larger type a Wood Hen. They are quite large for a peckerwood.