Woodpeckers are notorious for pecking – or drumming – away at trees in search of food, a mate, and when nesting. But when they turn their attention to pecking your home, it can be frustrating. Aside ...

Every season is woodpecker season in North Carolina, so it’s not uncommon to hear a bird or two rappin’ on nearby trees or the outside of your house. Though the birds do the most damage between ...

The problem started last November. We woke up to a muffled, steady tapping noise on our bedroom wall. It had that weird, rhythmic but irregular quality, one of those mysterious kinds of patterns where ...

DEAR JOAN: The part of the many trusses that stick out on my house have had some dry rot, and a woodpecker started plaguing the place, pecking at the beams. I just had them all repaired but the ...

“Woodpecker” is an apt name for an animal that thrives on doing just that, pecking wood, usually within earshot of your bedroom or quiet space. On average, a woodpecker will peck around 12,000 times a ...

"No, this is not a bird; it is a jackhammer with feathers!" That's how an irritated caller described a woodpecker to me. Her romantic notion of living in harmony with nature was shattered with every ...

Several readers say the way to keep woodpeckers from drumming into the house is to feed them. One from Minnesota wrote: “We live on a lot next to woods and had many fresh woodpecker holes in our cedar ...

It’s 5:30 a.m. and you’re suddenly woken up by the noise of a woodpecker pecking away on the side your house. What can you do? The options are limited and for the most part, all non-lethal. Shooting ...

"Chris, do something about that woodpecker banging on our house. I can't work during the day and it's putting holes in our house," my wife, Katie, said to me one fine day. "Uh, yeah. OK. Um, sure," I ...