If you don't tell them they can't take action, can they
I've seen joint local power and telephone poles so full of holes I wouldn't climb them, I had to get a bucket truck to work on that terminal that day.
It took a little over 30 days for our engineers and construction dept. to change it out back in the late 1990s, BTW our company didn't have pole inspectors, they relied on the employees to take action on bad poles
I use my pellet gun on woodpeckers on my house, I have over 40 trees on the property here that they can feed and nest in with out me taking them out
There good as long as their not pecking holes in my wood sided house