The Case of the Strange Tapping

The Sunday before last Sunday, my family and I were outside starting a fire for a hot dog roast, when we heard a strange noise coming from a truck that my dad's acquaintance parked in the back of our yard (why is it that when people see our nice sized yard, they feel compelled to fill it up with JUNK!!!!! Arrrgh![sorry about the ranting]). Anyway, it was a sort of rat-tat-tat-tat-tat noise but when we went up the back hill a bit, we didn't see anything. So we went about what we were doing. Then a while later we again heard the rat-tat-tat-tat-tatting. But when we went to investigate again, we saw a wood pecker! There he was on top the truck pecking away at the hard metal roof!

It was quite a bit of work to get this photo, the sucker kept on flying away every time I came to get a picture of him! I got really close the time that I didn't have a camera, but as soon as I brought it he flew away. Grrrr! I would go up the hill, he would fly away. Back down the hill I went and as soon as I got settled into playing hacky sack again, he would come back. Back up the hill I would trot, then he would fly away again! Arrrragh!!!! So my dad decided he would go get a picture of him, he sat up there for quite a while waiting for him and it payed off !!! (Normally I wouldn't care about getting a picture of a woodpecker, but I couldn't have a big long story on my blog with no picture!) So here's a few.

This last one was the pathetic picture I got, with all the smoke in the way :p

One of the times after he flew away, he went to the neighbor's garage and was pecking away on their metal roof! Then a day or two later I was walking in my next door neighbor's field, and I heard the same noise coming from the direction of another neighbor's house down the road. The woodpecker strikes again!!!!