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Bodyperson said

The flickers do that to my steel chimney cap in the spring during mating season to attract mates.

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I had a Redheaded woodpecker doing that last year- drove us nuts. I finally bungeed a mudflap onto the chimney cap for the summer, it didn't stop him but at least it muted the noise until he got over it!