In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:31:32 -0600, 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.)
>
> If he's that persistent, then he's determined to make the inside of
> that pipe his home for the spring and summer, at the expense of
> demolishing your cap and pip and littering into the exhaust of your
> water heater.
>
> I would take a hose to him every time I heard it to discourage it.
> A pellet gun works, too.
>
> -sw

Tsk! Try Owl decoys and move it weekly. Seems to work better if they
cast a shadow. Lowe's sells them.
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