After more than 20 years on the job, there wasn’t much that Castro believed could genuinely surprise him.
Then he received a call involving a woodpecker.
At first, the problem sounded relatively ordinary. A homeowner had noticed that a woodpecker was repeatedly drilling holes into the exterior siding of the house.
The visible damage was frustrating, but nothing about it suggested what was happening on the other side of those walls.
The bird wasn’t simply pecking at the house.
It was using the structure for storage.
And by the time the wall was opened, the scale of what had accumulated inside was enough to astonish even an experienced pest-control professional.
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