Hasn't broken any whole mirrors but I still do this with all.
Looks really silly on the little Ford Focus but whatever works. We've had 2-3 of these Woody Woodpeckers show up in 12 years so I'm not going to stress over it.
Posted on 04/26/2025 1:33:29 PM PDT by DFG
Caught red-beaked.
A frisky bird weathering mating season has taken aim at dozens of cars in a Massachusetts town — leaving residents shielding their vehicles from the feathered menace’s sharp beak, according to reports.
The pesky two-month mystery behind at least 25 punctured and shattered sideview mirrors and windshields in Rockport was recently cracked when a local caught the pileated woodpecker in the act.
“The woodpecker showed up and landed on the windshield wipers of the RV in our yard and was looking at its reflection,” Janelle Favaloro, 59, told Today.
“And we were like, ‘You know what, I bet he was the one that damaged the mirrors, as well.'”
Favaloro, one of the angry bird’s unsuspecting victims, shared the discovery on her neighborhood Facebook page, describing the “vandal” as “18 to 24 inches tall, wearing black and white with a red hat.”
Locals quickly revealed a flurry of similar damage left in the woodpecker’s path.
Mike Foster said the avian left a “nice big crack” on his Ford F-350 pickup truck.
“When it landed on the window, I thought it was my girlfriend tapping on the window,” he told the New York Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
We used to have that problem with crows with our basement windows. They never broke the glass, fortunately, we did have to block the windows so the birds did not see their reflections.
Hear, hear.
We have a sapsucker around here and it’s about destroyed a beautiful, young mountain ash. We had to wrap chicken wire around the trunk and put bird netting over the top.
And they’re supposed to be *protected* so options in dealing with them are few.
I think Rockport is the town.
Is it really that he thinks what he sees in the mirror are mating rivals or is he just so ugly that he has to smash every mirror he sees?
metmom wrote:
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Hear, hear.
We have a sapsucker around here and it’s about destroyed a beautiful, young mountain ash. We had to wrap chicken wire around the trunk and put bird netting over the top.
And they’re supposed to be *protected* so options in dealing with them are few.
“
Three S’es, modified:
Net, Shovel, Shut up.
PM
Hasn't broken any whole mirrors but I still do this with all.
Looks really silly on the little Ford Focus but whatever works. We've had 2-3 of these Woody Woodpeckers show up in 12 years so I'm not going to stress over it.
Excellent idea!
Wow, that’s a lot of damage, but a very creative solution.
We put plastic bags over our side mirrors if they are going to sit outside.
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