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I'm somewhat convinced woodpeckers are smart, conniving creatures. I always kept suet out, and they love it. All hours of the day, hanging upside down eating
by silisili 4y ago
I'm somewhat convinced woodpeckers are smart, conniving creatures.
I always kept suet out, and they love it. All hours of the day, hanging upside down eating at it.
But, if I ever forgot to replace it when it ran empty, I'd be awaken at the crack of dawn by a woodpecker hammering the window awning. Only when the suet was empty.
Maybe it's coincidence, but I like to believe he was trying to remind me they needed more suet in the most annoying way.
- darkerside 4y agoOr, if they couldn't find the easy food, they had to go dig for grubs in the trees
- silisili 4y agoWell, that would be a natural explanation if it were any of the 10 thousand nearby trees, or telephone poles even, and not the window awning. But it could just coincidentally be there were a lot of bugs in that awning, admittedly.
- darkerside 4y agoSounds like instinct at play. Woodpecker found a food source, came back and it was dried up, and naturally, it started digging to find more where that came from. But what do I know, I'm just Monday morning armchair ornithologist!
- dylan604 4y agoTIL, don't hang a bird feeder of any type that close to a window.
- George83728 4y agoI believe it. I once had a bluejay that frequented my birdfeeder and would hammer on my bedroom window whenever the feeder ran dry. He'd peck at the glass so hard I thought it might break.
- thedanbob 4y agoI guess we had a woodpecker that just hated us for some reason a few years back. We live in a log home but this bird decided it had to hammer on the metal gutters first thing in the morning. Sounded like a machine gun.