World's Loudest Woodpecker Drumming - Mini Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2016
- World's Loudest Woodpecker Drumming and Pecking! Northern Flickers use real man-made steel drums - metal chimney caps - that makes them intelligent "tool-users" and likely among the loudest woodpecker drummers in the world. But loud doesn't begin to describe what the 15-minute long drumming and calling sessions sound like inside the house whose chimney top is used as a drum. Enjoy this short documentary and imagine what this sounds like at the break of dawn as a male Northern Flicker defends his territory, mate and nest box!
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I like how the little bastard laughs at you between his reloads
I call them the American Kookaburra due to their loud vocalizations.
For real, their laugh or yell is so loud and they do it right before they drill l, always hear it everyday lol
Like animal mother in full metal jacket!
id be laughing at the little bastard, as i reload
@@rwboa22 hahah, totally underrated comment
It's the interval that gets me. Almost long enough to relax.
Underrated comment.
This is the perfect alarm clock
Like you hear it, stare at the fireplace, and just as you begin to read your book again...
BRRRRERRRRRRRRRR
🤣🤣😂😂
Reminds me of my Husband's snoring; after a few minutes, you relax and then it builds to a crescendo again.
Damn, sound like an MG-42 firing in short bursts.
I will be damned!! ToxicDragon You are absolutely correct. If the MG42 were to increase its rate of fire just a touch, it would be nearly identical.🤛
Haha, pulled up an MG 42 video clip to listen to one in comparison while this video was still playing and it sounds like a full-on exchange of suppressing fire between the two. Angry woopecker drumming as its life depends on it vs. historical firearms demonstrator, I think the woodpecker wins this online contest.
holy crap you are spot on
They have the same rpm, that's why.
I've got a Flicker drumming on my roof occasionally. I just open the window and call out "Mr Flicka!" And he hangs his head over the eave and looks at me and I tell him, "Stop that!" And he does. Seriously. :D he is so cute!
That's awesome! My Dad yelled at one, but it didn't stop. I'll suggest he use the bird's name, to be polite. 😊😂🕊️🕊️
Oh boy! I was cracking up each time he drummed on the chimney from the inside of the house! I can't even imagine what you must have thought the first time you heard that in the morning!
I would have thought a neighbor got himself a machine gun!
Me too is very funny this Bird
that was hilarious 🤣
I thought the City was doing some work outside.
@@LadyRickie sounds like an unscheduled pothole or utility repair.
Well, that's one way to wake up naturally...
+Bird-Preferred Nerd Good alarm clock for birders!
Lol 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
That's no alarm clock....its a dam shooting range😂😂😂
@@Riomoviefan more like an unscheduled pothole repair project.
@@rwboa22 🤣
The Flicker is one of my favorite birds, mostly for its colorful, unique appearance. They drum here in the Pacific NW on telephone pole sheet metal. Cracks me up! Pileated woodpeckers have done it, too, over the years. They all seem so proud to have discovered this ability to go all "heavy metal drummer." I love it!
🤣🤘
I am 20 miles west of Portland in Aloha so we have them here also and in the spring all the males are hammering on metal roof top covers of all kinds.
@@Lure-Benson I've a friend in Bend I'll mention it see if their around her place ??
@@lfader Yes they are and all across Oregon's forested lands.
Flickers I see on every trip to Bend.
@@Lure-Benson I'll let her know (She probably already does big nature lover)
Woodpeckers like squirrels They can be little devils but they're so entertaining and cute and they're gorgeous You've got to love them 🤣👍
Omg I laughed SO loud at the first drumming from inside.
LOL ... I'd seriously consider a ceramic something-or-other cover.
Good thing Grandpa doesnt live in the same house otherwise he'd be having omaha beach flashbacks.
I had one on the metal flashing of my shed and thought the neighbor had his air wrench cranked but wait it was too close. I don't remember the flicker in WI being this fast but it was colder.
Hitlers buzz saw, the MG-42 at Omaha Beach.
Was thinking the same thing
😂❤
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nothing wakes you up like jumping from your sleep and your heart racing instantly
AND grabbing a shotgun.
My heaven, you do not need an alarm clock in the morning BB! LOL!!!
+Annemieke van Leeuwen Nope - nothing like Nature!
BB
Sorry I AM late - my woodpecker was late :)
@@motooilermotooiler9597 😃😃☺
Even on Weekend and Holiday XD
Bastids! These things are notorious around here for doing this exact thing. They sound like a burst from the 37mm auto canon in the nose of an A-10 Warthog ground attack plane. One came down the chimney once and was trapped in the wood stove. Our cat pointed him out and I was able to grab him and give him a good lecture about rude noises from neighbors before showing him the front door. I don't think he cared.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!
actually the A-10 has a 30mm cannon
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And an A-10 doesn’t sound like this
@@jamesnash2620 Yea, i woud agree, sounds more like an MG42 machine gun. RUclips MG42 and see if you don't agree
Good thing you knew what that was - it would scare the pants off of me.
Despite the obvious irritation value for you, this is possibly one of the funniest birding videos ever! That and quite frankly, the little bastard sounds like an H&K MP5 on full auto in an indoor range. Awesome video👍🏻
Laughing so hard I'm IN TEARS. You poor people.
Then again, I have a pair of these birds courting in my front yard....and I have a fireplace insert....Oh, lord.
I'm laughing so hard also. Nature is the best! LOL
😂😂😂😂
I thought I was the only one lol-ing! It's frustrating and hilarious 😂
You will have no bugs in your siding and also no siding
me too 😂😂😂😂
This guy needs a proper drum set. I sense real potential with him.
blast beats!
😊The beat is strong with this one.
🤣
As a former east-coaster turned Oregonian, it has been an ethereal experience exploring the flora and fauna here. The first time I heard a Northern Flicker singing, I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out what that sound was! I happened to see it in the parking lot at one point and had no idea that it was the bird I had been hearing. I was simply impressed by its size and plumage!
Aren't they beautiful birds? I have a lot of them in my neighborhood - their population has increased as the robin population has decreased. :-(
We have Northern Flickers here on the East coat/New England also.
@@DebbieinNH ~ We have them here in Tuolumne County, California also💕
Scary if you didn't know it was such a beautiful bird making the noise, great capture!
+ButterflySpirit The first few times we we're taken aback!
BB
This is both hilarious and startling. Imagine hearing that, not knowing wtf it is.
Best laugh of the week looking at that fireplace.
😂😂 and the sound just bursts out of it.
That bird sounds like an A-10 warthog on a strafing run 😂😂😂 if you heard the sound it wasn't meant for you
When my dad was in 'Nam 50 years ago, they didn't have the A-10 and the AC-130 was still new, but instead they had "Puff the Magic Dragon" (AC-47 Spooky).
We just had a roof vent repaired to prevent this! We were convinced it was a problem with the HVAC (it sounded so regular, and was coming from the HVAC duct). But it was just an amorous woodpecker trying to attract a mate. He would keep it up for half an hour at a time, often at 6 in the morning! So glad we have now woopecker-proofed the vents. :D
This is amazing I love these birds
Wow, I am usually awoken by, robins, mockingbirds, chickadees, and the occasional downy woodpecker, but good gracious, that's one way to say good morning!
(love the stuffed bears, probably why those bears came onto your porch in that video! XD)
Sounds like a GAU-8, and here I go waking up to the melodic warbling of Australian Magpies.
Oh man! Hey, have a friend sleep over and DON'T warn them about it LOL 😂 That bird is brutal
Imagine if you had PTSD from military combat and waking up to this. 😟
I was laughing so hard watching this you get woken up every morning what sounds like a machine gun
You are not alone To lauging
That is amazing.
It sounds like a machine gun firing in short bursts!
Thank you for posting this.
This made my day completely....laughed so hard that it just brought tears to my eyes....so funny.
I cannot Stop Laughing at Woodpeckers Pecking on Metal Chimneys it sounds like a Jackhammer 😂🤣😂🤣
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We have flickers here (yellow-shafted) here in northeastern SD. I even bought and hung a nice loud metal cake tin and hung it outside in hopes of hearing a similar concert, but alas, they ignored the opportunity this year. I'll try it again in another location next year. I suppose I should admit my ulterior motive of annoying a neighbor who, um, "savors" revving loud engines 24/7.
Oh gosh thank you so much for sharing this! Truly it has made my day! I love the Northern flicker and we have a flock of them that come in every so often.
I remember the first time that happened to us. I thought the world was coming to an end! Mercifully he decided another's house had a better sound. (It was a bit comical looking out our window, towards the neighbors and seeing their alarm and confusion, as they opened their curtains to look outside, obviously wondering if the world was coming to an end!)
So it's just territorial display? Happy to find this. This morning, in my living room around 8 am, I heard just this appalling noise, went outside, and saw a woodpecker fly away. Was hoping it wasn't being destructive. I can take a little noise, as long as there's no house destruction (the house across from me is the probable nesting zone--owner complains of hole drilled under roof with nest in it).
Great capture and presentation! ✔
I would add that Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers are also well known for doing territorial drumming on human-produced materials for amplification, making them exceptionally loud drummers. They are even known to pick favorite street signs for pounding on, as well as steel roofs, chimneys, and other metal surfaces (there is a video here on RUclips of one drumming on a Barbecue). I have a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker that is drumming nearly every morning on what I suspect to be a metal portion of the neighbors' roof - the Morse code-like tapping echoes loudly throughout the whole area. I had no idea that Northern Flickers do this too, so apparently I have just learned something new here! Thanks for sharing. :) Those woodpeckers sure are smart little fellas. Gotta love 'em.
Pretty sure this is happening to me right now. Thinking about setting up a camera to confirm. Same time in the morning too!
amazingly beautiful birds these northern flickers. love seeing these up-close the very rare chances i get. you are VERY fortunate you don't have pileated peckers waking you up. beautiful, big and LOUD and virtually always in pairs.
I thought our Kookaburra's here in Australia were loud
These guys are incredible with their choices of places to make noise. I'm envious of the birds down under, (especially parrot species) but we do have our own uniquely special birds up here.
Female mallard ducks with their rapid-fire "qwack-whack-whack-whack-whack" can be pretty loud.
Except Kookaburras are a type of king fishers, that don’t drum, just laaaarf..
Is that song from Australia, too?
"kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
eating all the gumdrops he can see.
Laugh, Kookaburra
Laugh, Kookaburra
Gay your life must be."
Next verse ends "Leave some there for me"
I have the exact same thing at my house near Seattle. Everyday same time same sound same duration. It truly is this loud. Like a machine gun.
My flickers like to pound the heck out of the light pole behind my house. And my neighbor's cedar tree. It looks like it was attacked by a maniac with a power drill. I had a downy woodpecker that would wake my every morning with his songs of luv on large hollow bamboo stalks that leaned on the fence in my neighbor's yard, going up and down the stalk for maximum variation, tone, and volume. At 6 a.m.. I called him "Robert Downey, Jr." - and also, my "morning headache". Thank goodness they have all ignored the metal roof cladding on my garage.
This made me laugh so hard. Such a good sport!
the first time that happened it would've scared the shit out of me
I love how the video starts by showing it just softly pecking on the metal (brrrt), but then cuts to inside the house where you actually hear symphony in all its glory (BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT).
LOL 🤣 Wakey wakey! And then he mocks you with that hyena-like laugh.
Lol he totally trolling
I love the early alarm clock...it this doesn't get u out of bed nothing will....lol
This is exactly what we've been dealing with for the past few days! At first I thought someone was using a jackhammer outside, then I was worried it was a problem with our pipes, and then I realized the drilling noise (along with chirping) was coming through our fireplace. It's very loud when it is amplified through the chimney, lol!
What a beautiful creation.
Love these dakka-dakka little twerps, their song echoing down the chimney followed by machine gun fire is always a welcome part of the season
A drill with great precision!
I have a similar roof vent cover and fireplace. I also get to hear this on occasion. So far I haven't thrown my coffee in the air or on my lap. That first drum is startling.
I was JUST woken up to this sound..again!! (Although it's been awhile) I bought my ex bf's condo almost 5 yrs ago and he didn't tell me that it came with flickers!!! Or an early morning alarm system!!! (I guess they weren't an issue then because I even asked him about it and he had no idea what I was talking about) For the longest time, neither did I! When I was first awoken to this sound, it was coming from my gas fireplace...I thought I had a serious gas problem (well not me but my fireplace) What if it blew up?! I had no idea how to describe the noise to the Property Manager! And if I asked them to send someone to investigate, the noise, being inconsistent, may not occur. Some days, the noise traveled....from the fireplace to my 2nd bedroom and then to underneath the bathroom floor/toilet. But most commonly; the fireplace!!! I didn't know what to do. Days of silence could go by and finally another rude awakening...coming from my fireplace! So I grabbed my camera and sat patiently waiting for the drumming to begin so I could record it and upload it to RUclips. Then when I emailed the Property Manager, I could include a link so they could hear what I was talking about and not think I was crazy! But even still, they didn't know what it was and said they'd have to send someone to investigate (which they never did). The noise dwindled to a rare occurrence and even to the point of not hearing it at all for a couple years and my building was still standing so for the most part, I let it go! Until, I was chatting with a friend about a year ago. I don't know how the conversation came up but I told him my fireplace story; waking up to hear this mysterious, annoying and worrisome noise coming from my fireplace and sometimes from the plumbing under my toilet. He described the sound to me, did his best imitation and confidently told me that it was a FLICKER!! I went home to search the internet (specifically RUclips! I knew he was a smart guy but I needed confirmation. And he was right! It was a FLICKER!!!! A F*ucking Flicker!!! (or as I sometimes call them: Flicking F*ckers!!! Now that I know what it is and that my gas fireplace isn't going to blow up, I can sleep at night....mornings are another thing!!!
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Great story - thanks for sharing! BB
@@paintbynumbers07 Yep that's a Flicker!
I have some woodpeckers in the neighborhood that drum to call ladies. They wake me up at 6 AM even though they are some blocks away drumming water pipes. I've thought that's so cute but that noise you got is bahahah! I hope you understood that it was just a bird trying to find a mate :)
It sounds exactly like an MG42.
Damn I just imagined falling asleep drunk on the couch in front of the fireplace and being woken up by the noise in the morning ...
Time to get the rifle
For a WW2 history geek this is amazing. The sound of the German machinegun MG-42 in your home, wooowww!!!
"relax and enjoy a few minutes of flicker drumming".......... *bloodshot eyes and shaky coffee*....
This is a problem I would love to have XD!!! Flickers are one of my favorite birds
As I'm watching the video, a scenario pops in to my head. A cop standing next to the fire place doing a investigation interview. All of a sudden, our wood pecker decides to chime in. I now watch the cop reaching for his gun with one hand and screaming in the mike in the other hand. SHOTS FIRED !! SHOTS FIRED !! LOL I would pay money to see that. LOL Thanks for sharing your video. Peace :-)
My parents had a house with a chimney like this that made flicker drumming boom through the entire house. It terrified their dog, much worse than Fourth of July fireworks ever did. Their dog (a pretty big dog) would be shaking and vainly trying to hide throughout the flicker mating season.
It happens on my woodstove chimney too, but I enjoy it.
you have solved a great mystery to me! i live in the middle of nowhere and at 7:00am i heard this exact jackhammer like sound. i have the same chimney cap. i ruled out woodpeckers as it was why to rapid and load, now i know why! plus, i just saw 4 younger flickers out my back door.
Glad I could help! BB
He drills with great precision!
🤣 then the Flicker laughs🤣 he has a new toy.
Noisy but absolutely wonderful!!!
The only thing that bird would hear at my house at 6:30 in the morning on Sunday is “POW!“
That is hysterical. I love it.
LOL! Our neighborhood woodpecker, named Desi for obvious reasons, would pound on our patio doors. I had the hell scared out of me till I realized it was him.
Thank you for your patience you are so lucky to have beautiful birds .awesome video
Some people complain about angels singing at 4:00AM in the morning, wait until they hear what the devil sounds like at noon. LOL😴🤭
I woke up to this same sound this morning! I wasn't sure what it was... but now I know!
Imagine that homeowner being a WW2 vet with ptsd... and it-s like 5 am when this sounds >.>
oof..
Lovely bird but I hope it isn't that loud in the bedrooms early morning! What a drummer!Thanks for sharing...Julie.
+chaldon2view Its pretty loud, but we're up pretty early!
I remember looking at flickers with my binoculars when I would go hiking in the mountains. Bird watching was a relaxing hobby when I was a teenager.
I've always wondered why these birds tend to peck at houses! Now I know and that's a good thing to put on my notes once I start really getting into ornithology!
I have a woodpecker right outside my bedroom window of my apartment. Little budy likes to drum on the exhaust vent to wake me up every morning at about the same time as my alarm. Unlike my alarm though, you cant turn him off on the weekends 😒
Jeez that's loud and relaxing my God I'm so glad that I don't have woodpeckers around that would anoing.
Well someone's doing heavy machinery works early in the morning 😂
Your videos are awsome iam a fellow bird nerd who greatly appreciates the knowledge you are sharing
Shame man - Laughing so loud I'm in tears!
I'm glad I'm not the only one having this problem. I guess drilling on the tree isn't getting his point across so he's now using the chimney cap. Great video!
Yep! Noisy critters. Between the vocal sound and the jack hammer beak on the roof vents.
Grandpa: [jumps out of bed] "Ambush! Suppressive fire!
We had one of these guys on our round, aluminum chimney a couple days ago. That tube might as well be a megaphone.
We had one on our roof vent recently drumming. Soooo loud. Yours is ten times louder though, whoa!
The fireplace acts as a horn amplifier. 😂
Thx for the post. I was wondering who was disrespectfully doing construction at 6am on a Sunday.
I get exactly the same here! :D I look forward to them... plus I get all 3x varieties of these... with the knock your socks off Bright Red... Orange... and Yellow underbellies!! ;)
I love woodpeckers. I saw one today after hearing it chirping. Feeeaaaatherrrrrrrrsss!!!!!!
Perfect. I’ll never sleep through my alarms again. You wake up to a Marimba? I wake up to bird song occasionally interrupted by an A-10 warthog. And I never have to set the alarm
LOL! They do that too at my house, at the chimney cap. It's really loud inside the house, you can't miss it! Just like in this video!
Best alarm clock ever. 😂😂😂
LOL It does happen!! Last summer on my chimney caps!!
This popped up in answer to my question! So fun! A little annoying but...so fun!
LMOA that would scare the crap out of me
0:30 that exact sound freaked me out when I first heard it. I was standing right next to the fireplace when it went off. Jeez that was loud!
Reminds me of my later teenage years when my parents and I had this cabin (converted from a chicken coop) up in Columbia County, Pennsylvania and the northern flickers up there would "drum" on the tin roof up there.
This is too funny😂great post😃
I have trained a woodpecker to peck my wifes head whenever she leaves the house, we call her holey Mary now lol!
🤣😂 Good morning 🤣😂 Jack Hammer noise from that damn bird lol.
Oh my god! We've moved to Colorado last year, and were struggling with this sound almost every day. I even thought it's the old house heating tubes in the walls... But now I clearly know it's that little bastard on the roof.
You have my sympathies! They are stunning birds BTW. BB
If this woke me up I probably return fire before I knew what was going on.....;-)
That's hellarious and a treat to witness. Gorgeous bird and hella percussionist