1 post tagged “woodpecker”
The day before yesterday, I awoke to the disturbing sound of what I thought to be "hammering." Honey was upset and tried to help me find out where the sound was coming from, what the reason was.......and WHO was responsible for it. We haven’t contracted with anybody to do work around the house, so it was a real puzzle. It was disconcerting to find that a piliated woodpecker decided that there were tasty morsels in the frame over one of our windows in our lake room. It wasn't hammering after all, it was an unwanted visitor doing his/her thing! Noooottt good! We went about out business during the day with intermittent distractions to open the window and encourage our feathered nemesis to go his/her way and leave us alone. Thank goodness we were able to get our message across; our feathered visitor hasn’t been back again! Also, it was good to know that he/her didn’t do damage! I really hate to, but I plan to spray the small hole with a bug spray to discourage any further visits! I can't help but wonder how in the world a bird.......big, little or whatever......can pound it's head into solid wood and come out unscathed??? In the past we have had occassional visits by borer bees and I found by accident, when we didn’’t have bug spray on hand, that WD-40 does a marvelous job of discouraging them. Don’t laugh.....it really works! Passing along this gem of experience is my “girl scout deed for the day” (smile) !
