gloria.p wrote:
>
> The past week we have had the return of the flickers.
>
> Every morning for an hour or two we have a big male flicker (woodpecker)
> drumming on the metal rooftop cap to our water heater. It sounds like a
> distant jackhammer in three to four second blasts. The sound gets
> annoying over time. There has also been a female poking around in the
> lawn at the same time.
>
> Spring is coming! (HAH, we had a dusting of snow on the grass this
> morning with another 8 weeks of possible snowstorms.)
>

My neighbour had one of those that had a thing for his TV aerial tower.
He was going to take the tower down anyway because they have
satellite, but the noise was added incentive.