Shooting a Woodpecker.

   / Shooting a Woodpecker. #151  
I hope no one gets one of these to visit their house.

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PS. Not my photo, just something from the web!
 
   / Shooting a Woodpecker. #152  
I hope no one gets one of these to visit their house.

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PS. Not my photo, just something from the web!
Pileateds are cool. When they fly it always looks like they will run into something yet they never do. I have several dead poplar trees on my property with that same cavity.
They are looking for food and only attack dead wood. Blaming the woodpecker for that is like me blaming the fork for this extra 30 lbs I'm carrying.
 
   / Shooting a Woodpecker. #154  
Birds and other animals I believe can have OCD just like humans. I had a bird building a nest making a mess and I tried everything.
I even put a birdhouse right where it was putting up nest, nothing worked. Finally a BB rifle, it never knew what hit it. No problem since.
I'll get plenty of hate mail but no choice!
 
   / Shooting a Woodpecker. #155  
Fingers crossed.

Woodpecker generally strikes in the early morning.

2nd morning and no woodpecker... Hope I don't jinx myself.
 
   / Shooting a Woodpecker. #156  
We had one for years. Every spring he would come back and peck on a metal pan we used to feed birds or on some other piece of metal.
This year I guess nature took it’s course!
 
   / Shooting a Woodpecker. #157  
It is my belief, that just like humans, animals sometimes also develop brain tumors and get an obsession for destroying stuff that they normally would have no interest in. I have had robins in my yard for all of the nearly 20 years I have owned my home. Never a problem with them. Then out of the blue we have a robin that decided that the only place in the entire world it can defacate is on my wife's car mirrors. To such an extent that one of them quit working after 2-3 weeks of constant bird manure. After finding out how expensive a replacement is, I got out my pellet gun and cured his brain tumor for him and ended his suffering. Since that incident, 3 more years with absolutely no problems. I had a similar thing with racoons trying to break into my house through a basement window in fall. They met the pellet gun also. Racoon population purged of its radicals, no more issues for years afterward. Sometimes you dont need to think about it too much, just solve the problem. How much does a pellet cost ? We dont need a wildlife officer to come out to trap it.
On the racoons I have used a 22 rifle , racoons can create havoc on poultry
 
   / Shooting a Woodpecker. #158  

This might take care of it! 😉
 

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