Odd banging sound

They like to find things that make them sound superior to their neighbor/competitor. It should go away/decrease once mating season is over. In the mean time you can enjoy your new alarm clock :)

Now i understand. I'd bang on it too if I thought it would help to get laid.

Karl Townsend wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Got a pellet gun?

Another thing you might try: a toy-store rubber snake. Three or four years ago, we had a bird that would walk along the sill of our living room bay window, pecking at its reflection in the glass. For hours at a time. Until I put a toy snake on the sill.

Around the corner from me is an Victorian era home with a turret on the corner. The turret still has its conical slate roof with a sheet tin cap at the very point. One day, while taking a walk I heard an odd banging. I tracked it down to a woodpecker tapping on the sheet metal cap. You could hear the sound for blocks.

Paul K. Dickman

Here's one on youtube:

I occasionally have some type of bird pick on my roof, doing what I can only assume to be picking for bugs. Fortunately they are somewhat intelligent birds, so after a few iterations of throwing a handful of gravel at them they don't come back.

Until the next year, of course.

Jon

Now i understand. I'd bang on it too if I thought it would help to get laid.

This should be R rated, but it includes banging and teens interacting.

Here's one on youtube:

Years ago, I heard the term "peckerwood". Had to research it. Turns out to be a southern term for a poor white man.

There's a downey woodpecker hanging around here. He'll bang on everything, the mailbox, tv antennas, signs, whatever makes the most noise is what he finally settles on. Seems he really likes the trim boards on the back of my shop and just pounds away! He's no bother to me at all, in fact I kinda enjoy it because it won't last. A mate will hear him and show up for a hot date and that's the end of that till next year. ;>)}

There's a downey woodpecker hanging around here. He'll bang on everything, the mailbox, tv antennas, signs, whatever makes the most noise is what he finally settles on. Seems he really likes the trim boards on the back of my shop and just pounds away! He's no bother to me at all, in fact I kinda enjoy it because it won't last. A mate will hear him and show up for a hot date and that's the end of that till next year. ;>)}

What makes your wife romantic? Bang on that!

Well pad yer groins, son!

I had a similar redheaded male woodpecker trying to woo a female here about 5 years ago. It drove me nuts until I figured out what the hell it was. Then it drove me nuts until he got himself laid. Noisy bastids, ain't they? My guy's object of affection was the stove vent cover.

Sorta reminds me of when I moved to Grass Valley in 1980. House I'd rented was new and not finished as the contractor was behind. So a co-worker offered a spare room until it was ready. I'd talked about my competitive target shooting in the bay area, and he mentioned he had a Ruger that couldn't hit anything, let alone the woodpecker banging away on his house now and then. Brought me outside to show the damage, and lordy, there were holes everywhere! I asked how long it'd been doing that to make so many holes. "Oh he's only done some of them, the rest are from me trying to hit the bastard". Geez, must have been close to

Jon

Sorta reminds me of when I moved to Grass Valley in 1980. House I'd rented was new and not finished as the contractor was behind. So a co-worker offered a spare room until it was ready. I'd talked about

my competitive target shooting in the bay area, and he mentioned he had a Ruger that couldn't hit anything, let alone the woodpecker banging away on his house now and then. Brought me outside to show the damage, and lordy, there were holes everywhere! I asked how long it'd been doing

that to make so many holes. "Oh he's only done some of them, the rest are from me trying to hit the bastard". Geez, must have been close to

Jon

Eh, wasn't my house... He seemed to think the holes were an acceptable trade off if he managed to nail the woodpecker. I never even heard the pest, and probably wouldn't have shot it if I had, unless my host was home and insisted.

Jon

And then PETA or the ASPCA would have you gelded. That's after CalOSHA got done proving that you didn't use safety bullets in the gun and sent the vicious, gun-fearing liberal DA after you. About that time, the regulatory folks from the Endangered Species Act would be on ya...