Birds have very small brains, especially our resident woodpecker. I call him Bird Brain. He resides on our rooftop and loves to mark his territory by pecking away at…the metal in our chimney. Bird Brain doesn’t seem to understand the difference between metal and wood and I don’t suppose he cares…but WE do!
Why? Because Bird Brain’s pecking sounds like a MACHINE GUN!
Yes, every morning during Bird Brain Season, we awake to the sound of Machine Gun Fire. It doesn’t scare me anymore, but the first time I heard it, I thought we were under attack by al Qaeda!
But, I love our woodpeckers. Hang out some suet and they will be very interested in pecking that. We have two different kinds that come to our porch and they have never pecked the building.
Bird Brain visits our house every year too and loves the peck, rapidly, on our stove pipe and chimney pipe. Ours is a Nutcracker, not a wood pecker, and he is known to love the sound that his pecking does on the metal. Not fun when it’s early in the morning!
I’ll send mine your way, Cris.
Must be Bird Brain’s cousin.