Big Woodpecker Goes to Work on Mailbox in Sargent Hills

Sargent Hills resident Jamie Murdoch captured a quick video of a big woodpecker working on a mailbox in that neighborhood.

We don't really have much to add, so we'll end the story there...

Actually, wait. Some neighbors on Facebook offered some tips so you can avoid this sort of thing if you happen to have a particularly attractive wooden mailbox post. 

From Barbara Hawkins-Scott:

I'm a big bird nerd. If you want to discourage the woodpecker from eating your carpenter bees (both will destroy wooden objects) you can place a milar balloon near where the bird is feasting. Birds perceive moving reflection as a predator.

Any other tips so residents' mailbox posts aren't devoured by a Hitchcockian horde of beaked belligerents? Tell us in the comments section below.