Quote Originally Posted by Williamsmith View Post
We have them and I enjoy seeing them in the woods while hunting, walking, cutting wood. But I do not enjoy seeing them on the rare occasion they think they might find food beneath your wooden soffit. They are a magnificent bird though.
Yeah, woodpeckers of all kinds love to find bugs in the wood siding of the house. My SIL was having major problems with that. She found that if she stopped putting out suet for them, they didn't bother her house so much! Our problems are more from carpenter bees.......but then the woodpeckers go after their larvae in the holes and make them much bigger.
We also have tons of those mud tunnels from mud daubers on the house and the smaller birds love pecking into those. I guess everybody has to eat......