The Flicker is a beautiful bird, but this little devil has been pecking holes in the siding of our Hill House. The flicker is a woodpecker, and has a white rump, so it is easy to spot when it flies. You almost never get to watch the flicker sitting on a tree. It moves as soon as you approach, but you can watch them fly away.
Ken heard it first and could not identify the sound because the pounding is intermittent. Normally you hear the woodpeckers hammering away in the woods at a fast rate, so Ken was sure it was not a woodpecker hitting the house. But I found him hammering away at the siding, early yesterday morning. That little critter has hammered several holes right through the wood siding.
Today, our builder Keith, came today with his ladder and a can of foam and filled up all the holes. Keith will sand down the foam, then paint it, so the siding will look fine. But the real problem is how to stop the woodpecker to stop destroying our siding? You never know where your difficulties will come from, but today it is the flicker giving us problems.
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