As spring progresses, you may hear that ever-familiar sound: peck, peck, peck. While fun for bird watchers, woodpeckers can quickly become a nuisance when their beak’s target is the side of your home.

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

Question: After 30 peaceful years in our home, we have been bothered for the past five years by a woodpecker that visits us from late summer until late fall. He/she has made many holes in both our and ...

Owning a wood-framed house in Upstate New York, I expected to deal with snow and the occasional mouse—not birds attacking or flying into my home. But last fall, after hearing a woodpecker drill its ...