BRRRAPPP!
Yesterdays drama with the truck and online and finding out that an old friend is enduring some measure of grief, and god knows how many other things, was stressfull enough, but I sit here in my dressing gown waiting to get ready for Mass and BRRRRAPPP!
No, I did not shit myself, a noise like a Vickers right outside the window made me feel like I ought to. After the third time I look and find that a woodpecker has been checking to see if there are any tasty grubs in the cedar siding.
C’mon, you crazy little fucker. Let me get a coffee in me first before you startle the crap out of me.
I once had one check my amuninum gutters for grubs. The poor thing must have been more thick headed than usual because he kept at it for several munites.
Yep. Wood peckers try almost any surface to find the next meal.
I had a porcupine once wake me from slumber chewing on the front door. Last time he did that.
YMMV
Woodpeckers are not all that bright. I had one drilling in the soffit outside my bedroom window. I could chase him/her/it away, but he/she/it would be back next morning. So I climbed up and sprayed the area with bitter apple. I was afraid the dipstick woodpecker would just move down the house a bit, but no, it just gave up and hasn’t been back since.
Being woke up from a sound sleep by a bird the size of a watermelon is not much fun, and shooting it is a damn felony. I can see it being a misdemeanor, but a felony?
Yeah, I had one banging on the aluminum trim around a window once too, sounded like a frikkin’ truck load of old beer cans being dumped down a steep hill.