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 ...

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 ...

Now is the season of drumming woodpeckers. I hear their rat-a-tat-tats every morning in my front yard and during walks across my college campus. While other male songbirds utter melodious tunes in the ...

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

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 ...

Lunceford on Landscaping.BY LU SNYDERThe sound of a woodpecker hammering in the forest is as much a song of nature as the wind through the trees or autumn leaves falling to the ground. But when the ...

Each year, late February is marked by a dramatic natural phenomenon. It is at this time, as we end the short month, that lengthening days become more noticeable. At last, the commuter can travel in ...

The weather has been fickle this winter, but one thing I could count on was visits by downy woodpeckers to my suet feeder. Downies, like most of the woodpeckers in this area, are present year round, ...

The recent consistent subzero temperatures and frigid wind chills have caused us to think that the coming spring is further away than indicated on the calendar. Negative numbers are no stranger to us ...

It's too early on a weekday morning to be hammering, but this guy is a machine. He must be a professional with some sort of pneumatic nail gun, as the banging is faster and more consistent than a ...

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 ...

Spring is my favorite time of the year. The pleasant weather is a call to open the windows of our homes and be treated to the smells of spring flowers, fresh cut grass and the sounds of birds doing ...