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GETTING RID OF WOODPECKERS: ANY IDEAS?

tends2dogs — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:06:09 GMT

Every year DH has to patch in and restain the holes left by these critters. I am talking not one or two, but several. Years ago we asked a bug exterminator and he said it is not true about bugs being in the siding. Our siding is cedar.

Please don't say, Google it. We have, but thought if someone has tried something and it worked, it would save us the time and effort.

TIA

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goldensrbest — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:16:46 GMT

I love hearing the woodpeckers,but they are doing their thing on trees here,not my house.

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We rescue cats — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:18:12 GMT

Several years ago my parents had a determined pileated woodpecker drumming on the side of their A-Frame home, they tried nearly everything to get it to move on. Finally my dad hung 'jingle bells' on a cord of mylar reflective ribbon across that entire section of the wall. Eventually the bird moved on. . .

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TheMemphisVette — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:20:25 GMT

log cabin here

woodpecker buffet

what is currently working........

disposable pie tins attached to a string attached to house at their favorite area.

the tins are reflective, move in the breeze.

located deep in the woods so the beverly hillbilly visual is only seen by the bears and delivery drivers.

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Ainhisg — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:20:52 GMT

A lot of times, they're pecking to attract a mate. We had one pecking on our treated lumber shed, and that is why. He eventually moved on. I know you said to not recommend googling it...as you wanted to hear real-life recommendations...but when we were dealing with this woodpecker, there were a gazillion techniques talked about online.

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haddon9 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:19:55 GMT

It's been a problem in my neighborhood too. We had a big hole that we had to get someone to fill in then paint over. It was way up in the trim over the garage.

Sorry I don't have any suggestions though and hope to hear something from someone else.

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GingerHead — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:27:39 GMT

We live in a cedar sided house in the trees and when we moved in there was lots of damage/holes from woodpeckers in our siding. We were also often woken up early in the morning from their pecking because their favorite spot was right outside our bedroom window. ugh!

So we hung reflective tapes stung up all along their favorite place, along with chasing them away by throwing small rocks around them....not at them. Luckily, it worked and we've been woodpecker free for 2 years.

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FranandZoe — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:43:46 GMT

How about wind chimes? Fake/rubber snakes and/or owls might deter them.

We had a woodpecker actually remove a tree stump from our front yard - it was pretty amazing - glad he did it for us lol

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Nightowlz — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:43:48 GMT

We had 2 different kinds of woodpeckers out here. One day one had a bird trapped in the hole. Long story short I threw a small rock beside the woodpecker in the leaves in tree. The woodpecker took off & the bird got out. Have only seen the woodpecker once since? Maybe try throwing a small rock close by.

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On It — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:10:42 GMT

Some years ago, our pest control company told us to hang blank CD discs from the roof overhang. We used fishing line and hung several across the affected area. It worked. They do not like the flash of light when the sun strikes rhe disc.

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RespectLife — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:58:43 GMT

@GingerHead wrote:

We live in a cedar sided house in the trees and when we moved in there was lots of damage/holes from woodpeckers in our siding. We were also often woken up early in the morning from their pecking because their favorite spot was right outside our bedroom window. ugh!

So we hung reflective tapes stung up all along their favorite place, along with chasing them away by throwing small rocks around them....not at them. Luckily, it worked and we've been woodpecker free for 2 years.

@GingerHead

Thank you so much for your post and suggestion.

I don't have peckers, but I have rabbits....I looked it up and they hate foil also!!

Appreciate it.....we have tried everything but never heard of this.....we will try anything!!!

(although my garden is gone and he ate all my lillies...but I will foil up next year!!!!)

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Big Joanie — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:48:06 GMT

Online Bird Deterrents ... we have them on our house in

Florida .... shiny discs .. they work ....we have had no

wood peckers since..

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GingerHead — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:07:39 GMT

@RespectLife wrote:
@GingerHead wrote:

We live in a cedar sided house in the trees and when we moved in there was lots of damage/holes from woodpeckers in our siding. We were also often woken up early in the morning from their pecking because their favorite spot was right outside our bedroom window. ugh!

So we hung reflective tapes stung up all along their favorite place, along with chasing them away by throwing small rocks around them....not at them. Luckily, it worked and we've been woodpecker free for 2 years.

@GingerHead

Thank you so much for your post and suggestion.

I don't have peckers, but I have rabbits....I looked it up and they hate foil also!!

Appreciate it.....we have tried everything but never hear of this.....we will try anything!!!

(although my garden is gone and he ate all my lillies...but I will foil up next year!!!!)

@RespectLife

Oh, you're welcome. Hopefully that works for you! I'm sorry about your lillies!

Reminds me of when we first moved here I bought a beautiful flower bush of some sort at the nursery and put it in front of our house. The next morning I woke up to admire my new flowers only to find that every single flower had been plucked off and I was left with an ugly bush. haha

Turns out deers eat most everything! haha

We love our wildlife but sometimes they can be so annoying!

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JeanLouiseFinch — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:13:16 GMT

@On It wrote:
Some years ago, our pest control company told us to hang blank CD discs from the roof overhang. We used fishing line and hung several across the affected area. It worked. They do not like the flash of light when the sun strikes rhe disc.

This was going to be my suggestion. It was recommended to us as well.

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tends2dogs — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:03:16 GMT

It sounds as if flashy, shiny, moving things (LOL) is going to be the answer!

Thanks so much for all that took the time to post!

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Mom2Dogs — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:17:45 GMT

@tends2dogs Several years ago we had a woodpecker drill holes into the wood siding on our back porch. My husband repaired the hole several times. I decided to try hanging a metal pie pan...up near the area to scare the bugger...it worked and it has never returned.

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Hopein24 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:17:07 GMT

We had one a few years ago and it just about ruined our front porch. They are a protected species, so I talked with my neighbors who were very elderly and she dug out a fake owl she had and told me to put it where they were damaging the wood. It was plastic, looked real and was about 20 inches tall and maybe 10 inches across the chest. It worked. It took just a few more brief visits from Woody, but once he spied the owl, he found better wood somewhere else. You can purchase one at any farm store or on Amazon. If you do, hold on to it as your neighbor might need to borrow it! 😉 Good luck!

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Jersey Born — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:53:28 GMT

@tends2dogs - Every spring, it seems, I experience a lone woodpecker that is interested in pecking at my home at a very high-up location. What has worked for me, is rather fascinating to me, as I am not an ornithologist, or even a bird-watcher, and I have no knowledge of birds.

When I hear the woodpecker pecking on the top of my home, which sounds more like drilling to me, usually at about 6:30 to 7:30 am on a spring morning, I throw on clothes, a jacket, and shoes, and I run outside, stand back from my home to a location far enough away that I can get direct line of sight to the woodpecker. Then, looking at the bird, I clap my hands loudly or yell, "Get out of here!" at it. I find that the bird will notice me, and completely illogically (as I am nowhere near the bird, and I am without wings, myself) fly off and away from my home. Some years I must do this two mornings in a row, but no more than that. Woodpeckers are skittish, apparently, and afraid of a woman who cannot possibly harm them, but merely notices them and looks directly at them while making some kind of noise.

Wishing you the best in ridding yourself of the woodpecker issue.

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shelbyshelbyshelby — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 22:40:04 GMT

Contact Animal Control , they may be able to refer you to someone who can help .