My intrepid co host Duo Dickinson commented the other day that he needed advice on coping with an auditory (and structural) assault on his home by a woodpecker. (Or woodpeckers.)

We called Patrick Comins, Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon Connecticut, who told us you can keep the birds away from your house by hanging suet in the back yard: “It seems counterintuitive because you’ll actually attract more woodpeckers to your yard that way, but I have a couple of suet feeders in my yard, and only once have I had one pecking on my house, and it [was] for a very short period of time”.

In addition to providing us with good advice and entertaining woodpecker stories, Patrick supplied us with two important links; click here to read a fact sheet on “Dealing with Woodpecker Problems”, and here for “The Checklist of the Birds of Connecticut”.