Woodpeckers are notorious for pecking – or drumming – away at trees in search of food, a mate, and when nesting. But when they turn their attention to pecking your home, it can be frustrating. Aside ...

You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they’re dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead tree. But their loud hammering is impossible to miss if they start ...

As spring progresses, you may hear that ever-familiar sound: peck, peck, peck. While fun for bird watchers, woodpeckers can quickly become a nuisance when their beak’s target is the side of your home.

What do you do when a woodpecker adopts your home? Because all native bird species are protected by federal laws, woodpeckers cannot be trapped and removed in the same way that one can dispatch a ...

Question: After 30 peaceful years in our home, we have been bothered for the past five years by a woodpecker that visits us from late summer until late fall. He/she has made many holes in both our and ...

GLEN ELLEN, Calif. (KGO) -- A pest control company had its hands full after a woodpecker's impeccable work caused damage to a home in Sonoma County. Nick's Extreme Pest Control was called to the house ...

GLEN ELLEN, Calif. - Exterminators in the North Bay were recently met with a nutty surprise during a call to a home in the wine country community of Glen Ellen in Sonoma County: more than 700 pounds ...