On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 07:02:06 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>
>> U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> >When we first moved here, despite the CCRs, someone had chickens and a
>> >rooster. They got rid of the chickens but the rooster made a break
>> >for it and lived 5 years on the wild side. He'd get up in the pine
>> >trees early in the a.m. and make sure we all were awake.
>> >Funniest thing to see a rooster 25 feet up a tree calling out the
>> >start to morning.
>> >Janet US
>>
>> My sense of humour would be low at that hour!
>
>One summer, we had a woodpecker that would fly onto my roof
>right above my bedroom and "machine gun" the metal flashing
>for an hour or so with his beak. I often went out and
>threw a stick up at him to chase him off.

My neighbour by the sea was a radio buff and had a big aerial on his
roof. The male woodpeckers all used it, it would seem,so an
ornithologist told me, that the loudest woodpecker drummer is seen to
be the best mate by the females So it isn't that he doesn't
understand he can't drill a hole in the metal.