Woodpeckers are my least favorite bird at the moment. For months a woodpecker has been pecking on the outside of our house. Most of the house is stucco, but there are two areas of wood, including a 35 year-old wooden garage door, which now has several nicks and one hole clean through the door. The evil pecker comes around now and then, and pecks his heart out. If I’m home, I pound on the wall to scare him off, but he keeps coming back.
My research says that he pecks to attract a mate, but the fiberglass insulation scattered on the ground suggests that he was trying to build a nest inside my exterior wall. I covered up that particular hole with a metal can lid and duck tape, but I need a more general solution. I can’t shoot him in my urban neighborhood. I’m ready to replace the old garage door with metal, and maybe have stucco put on the small area of exterior wall.
Dag it’s crowded in here. Q did you forget I had to work this weekend?
>>he was trying to build a nest inside my exterior wall
Set one up so he doesn’t have to do it himself
You can try reflective tape. Hang it up in the areas where the wood pecker does his damage.
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A guy I worked with years ago had a house on the edge of town and adjacent to some heavy timber. The woodpeckers were driving him nuts, hammering on the house and reducing him to ludicrous "scare" tactics that all failed.
Somebody at a local watering hole suggested that the "natural" wood siding on his house was full of tasty - to a woodpecker, anyway - bugs and larvae, so he re-sided the house. Whether the advice was legit or not, the woodpeckers never came back.
Pellet gun baby! save your house.
Not a woodpecker fan either.
Had a woody woodpecker sapsucker drill thousands of holes in two twenty year old Japanese flowering pear trees in my front year. Our neighborhood mourned those trees he murdered.
We are certain that woodpecker bird was a democrat.
Where is a bird of prey Superb Owl when you need one?
Hey I just heard on Faux news this morning it is National Pizza Day.