A woodpecker has decided to share my home recently and pecked several holes in my exterior walls. He finally settled in one of the holes as a home.
How do I humanly get the bird to stop making more holes in my house and go away?
Thanks in advance.
A woodpecker has decided to share my home recently and pecked several holes in my exterior walls. He finally settled in one of the holes as a home.
How do I humanly get the bird to stop making more holes in my house and go away?
Thanks in advance.
Woodpeckers don’t like owls at all(for good reason). My neighbor had the same problem and used a fake owl to ward off the annoying birds. I’ve also heard of fake snakes being deployed around the problem areas.
-Kaotic
Aluminum siding?
The owl decoy sounds like an idea solution.
Think about baseball?
Here’s a good site on prevention of woodpecker damage.
Among the methods they suggest are rapidly covering any holes made with aluminum or wire cloth, hawk mobiles or other visual deterrents, and loud noises.
If you do a web search using woodpecker, damage, and prevention you’ll get lots of hits.
A great thread, guys, as a woodpecker just started systematically destroying my house last weekend. He broke a 1 by 6 piece of ornamental siding completely off, and has bored 3 holes!
You might get your house checked for termites. I had a woodpecker drilling the wall right outside my bedroom for months to get at the termites. Got rid of the termites, got rid of the annoying pounding every morning.