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What would a woodpecker peck?

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  1. Jack Straw

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    Why would a woodpecker peck the metal roof on the woodshed? Is he slow? He does this every year. Sounds like a machine gun in the backyard. I gotta imagine he's looking for love, why else does a guy do all that work?
     
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    It might be his call sign. The noisiest gets the most attention from the women. Aren't you lucky to have him in your neighbour!
     
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    Made me think of the woodpecker song but you can listen to that one yourself!

    Heres a better one

     
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    Supposedly impressing the ladies and maybe any competitors eyeing his harem as well.
     
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    You should have been here when one decided our steel chimney needed pecking on... :bug:
     
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    I had the same thing happen. A woodpecker would peck on our metal rain spout early in the morning for a couple of years in a row! It would scare the chit out of us! Finally after a couple of years it never happened again. I wondered myself why he did that?
     
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    In one of the places I hunt I've heard them thumping on the big metal power line towers. Talk about loud!
     
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    Here's a picture of him!
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    Well if that's your guy, then he does it just cause he's super ornery!
     
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    Is it a woodpecker or flicker? Flickers are notorious for pecking on metal; roofs, stove pipes etc.

    Regardless which, he's either telling the rest of his kind this is his territory, or he's looking for a mate.
     
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    At least he's not pecking your PECKER wood Jack Straw....:bug:
    :rofl: :lol:
    :picard:
     
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    :picard::picard::picard::rofl: :lol:
     
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    Gotta be one tough pecker to peck metal...:whistle:
     
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    Chastity belt?:loco: :crazy:
     
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    Dipped it in starch before his work...
     
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    Does that work? ..............I'm asking for a friend.:whistle:
     
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    "Ours" pecks the metal chimney...................
     
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    :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Hey, you are the friend! :rolleyes: :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Shhhhhhh... :picard::emb:
     
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