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 ...

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 ...

Nick Castro, the owner of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control in California, has been in the pest control industry for over 20 years. He has seen many bizarre things in his career, but recently he came across ...

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 ...

Nick Castro, the owner of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control in California, has been in the pest control industry for over 20 years. He has seen many bizarre things in his career, but recently he came across ...

Owning a wood-framed house in Upstate New York, I expected to deal with snow and the occasional mouse—not birds attacking or flying into my home. But last fall, after hearing a woodpecker drill its ...