Woodpeckers can ring and run too

[ this is a re-post of an original post over at Phase Portrait ]

Our Ring Pro video doorbell recently caught this red-headed ding-dong ditcher visiting our front door:

We answered this ring, but we weren't around about an hour later when it returned!

After checking with our neighbors, we found that gila woodpeckers have apparently been terrorizing some other doorbells and surveillance cameras in the area as well. It is pretty adorable... until you have to replace the device.

In this case, hopefully being startled twice by the Ring's chime is enough to encourage it to move on!