woodpeckers! argh!

[darkoshi]

This morning was the 2nd time in the last week that a woodpecker has woken me up early by banging on the (vinyl) bedroom window frame. Yelling at it from the bed does no good. Last time, I banged back on the window from the inside, and that didn't stop it either. Opening the curtain, window or door is a sure method to get my heart rate up even further and to make it harder for me to fall back asleep, and by then the bird is gone anyway.

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[darkoshi]

Not a bad idea. :) But I'd be worried about it accidentally hitting them or them flying into it and getting hurt. I suppose you could program it to keep a certain distance away... though keeping track of the position of a flying bird would be much harder than homing in on a loud sound.

[randomdreams]

I know this makes me sound like a bad person, but when they wake me up at sunrise I wouldn't, at that moment, be unhappy if it hit them on purpose.

[darkoshi]

Ah, I was just thinking earlier that life presents difficult choices and makes bad people of us all.

It might be easier to make something that is sound activated, and which broadcasts a sound that the woodpeckers don't like. Might need to experiment to determine what that sound would be. I wonder if making another wood-pecker sound would drive them away, or make them peck harder.

There are these little units to stop dogs barking that give out high pitched, inaudible to humans, noise when dogs bark. That could be something to experiment with (I have 2, but have no idea if they're still working or if the batteries are dead, because I can't hear them.)