So one of my favorite things to do is to sit on our back porch in the early morning (okay if you know me, you know this means the late early morning) and eat my breakfast and watch the birds and such in our back yard forest.
However, lately, this has taken on a more ominous meaning because of the arrival of one species of very unwelcomed bird: the woodpecker. Our home has wooden siding, and apparently one of these migrating birds has decided that our house is either a place to look for a meal or to build a nest, because he (or she) has begun pecking very large holes into the back of the house. (To go with all our other problems out there.)
(AM please insert pictures here.)
So anybody got any bright ideas of how to keep them away from our house?
In googling the topic, it turns out that you can't shoot them as all migrating birds are protected by law. (Not that we have a shotgun anyway and it would be darn tough to hit them without further damaging our or our neighbors house.)
We currently have put up two aluminum foil pie tins, to flap around in the wind (and bang against the girls and JPD's window) based on suggestions that came up in our google search. So far (a couple of hours) that seems to have done the trick, but then again, I have also been sitting outside writing my grant, so that maybe what is keeping them away as well.
Hopefully these migrating woodpeckers will quickly move on, but knowing our luck, I doubt it.
