Annoying Wood Peckers

Yesterday while I was getting ready for work I kept hearing this funny noise, which at the time I thought was the ice maker doing it's thing. Then it got louder and more frequent, our dog Juniper was having a fit running around the house not understanding the noise and trying to figure out where it was coming from. As I was walking around the house I realized it was coming from outside on the patio when I went to the window, I saw the culprit a woodpecker.



Sitting in the gutter hammering on the roof was the biggest, red headed wood pecker I have seen in a long time. This woodpecker's head was moving so fast you couldn't even tell it was bobbing up and down and the noise! Then I see another one flying around from tree to tree trying to get onto the house gutter.


I did what any other person would do that doesn't want to deal with this situation, I called Glenn. Explaining the noise and how annoying this morning has been, I then explained I was leaving for work. While I am explaining this all to him, he is on the other end looking up wood peckers on the computer. He proceeds to read to me what needs to be done, "I just love him". I explain again I was going to work just like I said, and he proceeds to get a little wound up reading about the damage wood peckers can cause.



So now in my mind, I was done this problem and my Husband was going to take care of it. At least that is what I thought. The next morning before Glenn left we talked about allot of stuff but never about the wood peckers from yesterday, to be honest I didn't even think about them again. That is until I get a phone call from you know who..



You see today is my day off and I have quite a list to accomplish, but Glenn says to me on the phone "by the way if the wood peckers come back today I need you to go outside get the metal "ash" bucket and a stick and start banging on it!



My response; "are you serious, I can't go outside and do that, it isn't like we live out in the country where no one will know the difference. The neighbors will think I am indeed crazy, 1st they didn't even know I existed because I worked so much. (Our neighbors thought Glenn was a single parent) then one day I just starting being around, whatever! Back to the metal bucket and stick, Glenn's response was just do it we don't want them around by the house and they scare off easily. I tried to explain to him about the neighbors and we live in town, etc. I was really only trying to protect myself at least what pride I have.



So as of now, I am very agitated waiting to hear the "pecking" this morning, seeing the metal bucket sitting there also waiting asking myself "who has a metal bucket sitting around these days anyways and where did that one come from".



Maybe I can go get my hiking whistle and use it instead or just maybe it was a one day thing and they won't come back at least while I am trying to have a nice day off. This is just another day in the life of living in Central Oregon you just never know what is going to come your way.

http://birding.about.com/od/birdprofiles/ig/Woodpecker-Gallery/Red-Headed-Woodpecker.htm

Here is a website incase you want to learn more about these funny birds.