While working, we would hear this tap, tap, tap. It turned out to be a woodpecker and it was tapping on the satelite dish on the neighbor's property. These pictures show the woodpecker sitting atop the metal posts of the gazebo after it had pecked on them. Someone told us this was to attract the attention of a mate.

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