An unlikely suspect has been breaking car mirrors in one Snellville neighborhood.

More than a dozen cars in the Nob Hill subdivision were damaged last week. Kevin Morrisey, whose truck mirror was broken, suspected it was kids vandalizing the neighborhood.

“I came out and saw broken glass next to my door and said, ‘Oh my gosh, the kids have hit it again’,’ he tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish.

Snellville Police took more than a half dozen written reports from his neighbors and even stepped up patrols of the area before receiving a tip. According to the department’s Facebook page, the culprit was a bird-brain.

“We believe that we have identified a suspect in connection to this crime. One witness observed a pileated woodpecker breaking her car mirror in the neighborhood. We will continue our patrols, but we suspect that this case is solved. It is most likely a retaliation to our post about geese the other day. It is known that the goose and woodpecker work together to cause trouble in safe areas.”

The story now makes sense to John Hancock whose wife had her car mirror damaged. He noticed his own mirrors had been pushed out multiple times, but never broken.

“They have a very strong beak and they will peck at another woodpecker and that’s what they’re doing. They’re pecking at the glass and sometimes they break it and sometimes they don’t,” he says.

Hancock even spotted the woodpecker fly off his car and into a tree Sunday morning.

Now he and other neighbors are covering their mirrors with bags to prevent any further damage.