Yeah, having a wood siding house, I get the woodpeckers ever once in a while. So far I've been able to discourage them before they created any damage. They certainly have enough trees around, you think they'd stick to them. I did have a funny one a few years ago in the spring. I was sitting in the living room and heard this noise from the fireplace smokestack. I wondered what it was, then I heard thrashing around in the fireplace itself.
Not knowing what kind of critter it might be, I opened the glass doors very carefully. My mind is on squirrel but it turned out to be a woodpecker. The fireplace hadn't been cleaned out so he was covered with soot. I didn't know how he'd react to me saving him so I grabbed some work gloves to reach in and hopefully get him before I had a bird flying around the house.
Fortunately, covered with crap, he wasn't difficult to nab. I got him outside, cleaned him up a bit and opened my hand. He actually sat there for a few seconds looking around, then high-tailed it into the trees.