How does a small black and white bird, weighing only about an ounce, drive some homeowners around the bend? The culprit — the downy woodpecker — problematically lives up to its name: These diminutive ...

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.

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 ...

Before we bought our house in the early 2000s, a home inspector noted woodpecker damage on the wood-framed fireplace chase. He didn’t have to dig deep to discover this. Not only was a yellow scare eye ...

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 ...

Dear Readers, One of the most commonly asked questions of this column is how to deal with woodpeckers carving out holes in the siding and trim of wood sided homes. As anyone who has tried to ...

This article was published 11/04/2012 (4908 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Woodpeckers are among the most recognizable and delightful of feathered friends to grace our yards ...

It’s bird season again. And bug season. A reader in Pearl River, N.Y., is getting unfriendly treatment from some feathered fiends. “My question concerns woodpeckers,” she writes. “They have ‘drilled’ ...