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[Allegheny]

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@blackhole99 wrote:

If you live in a log home home like we do, woodpeckers are really bothersome. Thank goodness we never had a big Pilated woodpecker come by, but I can imagine they could do a tremendous amount of damage to a log home.

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We have a cedar house and shed and started having problems with woodpeckers about five years ago.  Strangely nothing this year.  We have a few pilated woodpeckers, but those aren't the ones that attack our house.  I think what we are seeing are called the northern flicker.

[RedTop]

The ones we see occasionally are the size of a crow.    

[songbird]

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@tsavorite wrote:

@songbird  we were told to use foil over it.....my husband went up on the roof and put foil over it and that woodpecker never came back.  He didn't like the foil texture/sound I guess and left!  It really did work that's all I can recommend.  I know how loud it is...it was like a jack hammer going off in my kitchen!  

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From a distance, it does sound nice though.  Pretty birds

[Venezia]

@golding76- Here's a link to the Audubon website, showing the different woodpeckers.  The Pileated is the third row down, on the right.  If you click on it, you can scroll down and it gives the sounds the bird makes, too.

Audubon Woodpeckers

[Mom2Dogs]

@golding76..yes they can be destructive....one bird made a huge hole in our cedar siding on our back porch.

[feline groovy]

@Bird mama?

[Bird mama]

I haven't seen a woodpecker in a couple of years.  I had one that used to peck on my walnut tree.  Perhaps it still hangs out and I just never see it.

[Desert Lily]

We had a large woodpecker on our wooded lake property when I lived back East. It was an endangered species, and I thought it was a beautiful-looking bird. He pecked numerous holes on the back of our cedar-sided house. We hung aluminum pie pans with string in the closest tree to make noise and divert him from the house and later added a plastic owl. After a week or so the woodpecker moved on to one of the trees, and we had the damaged siding replaced.

[SeaMaiden]

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@blackhole99 wrote:

If you live in a log home home like we do, woodpeckers are really bothersome. Thank goodness we never had a big Pilated woodpecker come by, but I can imagine they could do a tremendous amount of damage to a log home.

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@blackhole99  Does not have to be a log home....I live in Seattle area and we just have wood siding painted....

we had $4000 worth of damage ....siding destroyed by wood peckers.  I hate them as much as I hate moles!😡 re replaced the wood siding with Hardy Plank made out of cement that looks just like wood.  They can not destroy that!👏👏👏👏

[golding76]

Thank you so much, Venezia!

The one in my yard was the bird shown on the bottom row, first birdie.