Woodpecker Doorway
Woodpecker Doorway
Originally uploaded by Lady Birchwood. I was up fairly late last night and took full advantage of this Saturday morning to sleep in for a bit. I was awakened by a hammering sound that seemed decidedly human in his force and rhythm. I knew that it was coming from the direction of the master bathroom but I made the assumption that the noise was being made by my husband who had been up and at 'em for a couple of hours. I figured he had decided to work on his model ship and was hammering something on it down in the basement and the sound was carrying up through the airducts.
A short while later, he came into the bedroom. The hammering noise was still issuing from the vicinity of the bathroom. Of course, I then realized that he was not the source of the hammering. He had been sitting downstairs listening to the same noise, wondering what I was doing upstairs and alternately thinking that the neighbors were doing something and the sound was traveling strangely.
Well, some investigation was in order. He went into the walk-in master bedroom closet where there is a removable ceiling panel that allows access to the attic space which is filled with fiberglass insulation. He went up there and discovered a hole about four inches in diameter with a large, pileated woodpecker staring in through the hole at him from the outside of the roof gable. The bird had probably been in the attic but decided to leave its new nest when the intruder appeared!
So, we have a big hole now in our gable which is way the heck up there at the top of our house! And it needs to be fixed right away. The engineer of the household is working on that problem now.
Way Up There
Originally uploaded by Lady Birchwood
Like I said, way the heck up there.....