Tap, tap, tapping

Have you ever heard a noise around your house that you could not identify? I have that happen on an irregular basis here. We have had bats in the attic, mice all over and with 5 cats and up to three dogs here at a time, there is bound to be noise all over, which there usually is.

But I am talking about the kind of noise that is not from inside your house, but from within it. In particular there was this tapping I would hear from time to time. I would scout out the location and see if one of the cats was into something, and never find anything. Well, it would get to be pretty persistent and I would go out to see if there was anything banging against the house, or in the attic. Last spring it got so persistent that I would have to stop my computer work to see if there was an animal trapped in my heating vents, or in the room right above me. Nothing.

I don't know why, but on one day when it was particularly loud, I went outside and saw a Downy Woodpecker pecking on the side of my house!! Found out they make a hole in cedar shingles to live in through the cold winter. Or they make holes to get at insects, which is not a good thing. In the spring I decided to not take any action as we found a bird size hole way up near the roof line and we concluded that it must have needed a safe place for the winter. Well, at the end of the summer i started hearing that tap-tap-tapping again. and this time it was on the back of the house.



I guess I need to think about looking into it eventually, as now our house is getting peppered with woodpecker holes!! But definitely, not happening anytime soon!! Too busy with more important things.