Sex crime.
Protected species. Can’t touch him.
For many years a particular red cardinal male combated my mirror on my car. Fortunately he was not a woodpecker that could have broken my mirror. The cardinal would go into full battle mode with ferocious attacks on my mirror. Due to age he is no more. I found him most amusing he also got scraps of food from our meals. I miss him.
Publicity stunt from a publicity-seeking bird...
Don’t punish him. The woodpecker is a gentle giant turning his life around and is a community inspiration.
Another terribly-written article by a female. Never ID’s the town. Gloucester?
Mating season? So we are just assuming this bird is heterosexual?
We have plenty of oak trees in our Florida yard so the pileated woodpeckers only attack the grubs and insects in the trees.
Male birds are a mean lot, right down to the soft little hummingbird. A little red cardinal will kill himself trying to get to his reflection in a window.
I remember a buddy at work coming back to his truck after a young Blue Jay sat in his open truck window and fought himself in the mirror and pooped. And pooped.
For me, it is mockingbirds. Hours and hours of dueling himself. And pooping everywhere.
Tastes kinda like spotted owl.
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.
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?