Woodpecker is blast beating!

at least you figured out what it was and it wasn't random gunfire every morning. Bird probably just wanted to say hi

oh so thats how valve got some sounds for the Source Engine

Very cute but that internal noise must be a bit annoying!

I love beaks.

Maybe he's faking a drive by

"CHIMNEY CELL PHONES, ANYONE"!

I'm pretty sure the question was answered in the 8 years that have passed, but: - Woodpeckers don't need wood to peck, despite what their names would tell you (har-har, I know) - They'll peck on most any surface, but they'll choose metal when trying to have a longer/larger reach. In short: it's communicating. - The one shown in this video is establishing to other woodpeckers that a) "I'm here" b) "I'M here, so don't try to claim my turf!" c) "I wouldn't mind if a partner would be interested in a tour of the place, uwu!" - Woodpeckers can peck at around 20 times per second, which is why, for humans, it sounds like you're in the middle of a warzone when they're around - Woodpeckers are cute as fuck Well, there's my trivia for the day. Hope it proves interesting to someone.

This happened on top of my house. But I didn't know it was a bird. It startled me in a major way since inside the house it sounded like the Gatling gun on an A-10 aircraft. Just as loud and terrifying. I would go outside and look for the A-10. Never saw one. But I eventually started noticing a medium size bird, a northern flicker. I've learned to like them. But my cats hate them.

MG 42! easy to recognize..

CALLED ' MACHINE GUN WOODPECKER '

Ha! That sounds pretty brutal from inside the house!

It’s technically a northern flicker.

I have I've who does it on the metal roof of my shop.

Why? Are you serious? He's trying to hit the same spot ten times but keeps moving to the side.

At least he's in burst and not full auto...

Cymbals would be even better.

Would someone fine that bird for violation of city noise ordinances as he is a menace to civilization?

Heavy metal 🤘

That’s the northern flicker and idk y it does that.

It likes the different noise from wood

This is a male flicker trying to attract a female. I was awakened 5 times between 5:30 - 7 a.m. in the space of 2 weeks by a jackhammer drilling concrete. After asking all my neighbors (who must have thought I was crazy) I figured out a male flicker was hammering on my chimney cap so that it reverberated down to my furnace in the basement. Apparently a female found his heavy metal rock devastating. He is now busy finding ants for her.

The woodpecker goes METAL

Yo, it's tagging your chimney.

It simply knows that bees and bugs are in it and is trying to scare them up and out. Fact!

You could say that he's a bit of a metal head...

The obvious answer is he was flying overhead when he noticed a few loose rivets. "Reckon I'll just take care of those. No problem. No charge."

It was doing it just to fuck with you.

that's just karma biting you in the a$$ for something, but in bird form

Ein Fan des 42ers!👌🏻

We had a Pilleated woodpecker do this to the metal lining inside of the chimney when i was a kid. It was so loud in the house, it scared the crap out of all of us. I lit a small fire in the fireplace, and he flew off. But the damage was done, and my dad and I had to add some metal to that area to keep any embers from going into the holes it made.

Calling his Sweethearts in the next town over.

Sounds like an A10 Warthog.

"I said I AM woodpecker!"

I needed this laugh!😂

I had a woodpecker, also a Northern Flicker, do the same to mine. I wondered too. After all he’s getting no food…..but then……like everyone answered here…mating. When I first heard it I thought someone was doing street work…😂

Jackhammer Machine Gun Woody is their name

AR-15 set on full auto they're playing war games

It’s not a Woodpecker. It’s a Northern Flicker. And they do this to attract a mate. They do it 0n mine also!

the mg42 machinegun woodpecker

Did anybody else search specifically for this to see if they had a fucking woodpecker visiting them in the mornings?

Thought about uploading more of your woodpecker stuff, orrr…?

Hes looking for his mate

they also like downspouts. these things are dickheads.

MG42 Birb

This happened to my mom before her and my step dad they were put at there cabin and was sleeping until they hear a woodpecker drumming on metal like this and had no idea what it was until they fiured out it was a woodpecker

A Flicker! Rosey the Riveter. 😃

Jerk!

he likes heavy metal😢😂

That's a MetalPecker actually 😂