How do you get rid of a woodpecker?

VR3

If anyone wants a reason to hate wood siding, I'll give you two..

1) Carpenter Bees
2) Woodpeckers

Carpenter Bees go in the wood...and turn...and hollow it all out...

The Woodpecker peck out their tunnels and eat the lil punks... what does this lead to?

Lil designs in the siding... now, I know your thinking...WHY NOT GET VINYL siding? Well...its expensive, good reason huh? So for the time being, I am just doing constant maintence on the house putting clear caulk in the holes so he has some difficulty...which has worked so far as he is leaving the spots I worked on, but he is going to others...so what are ways to get rid of the lil punk?

Any humane, in-humane ways to get rid of the thing?

Anything is helpful...thanks

AsSiMiLaTeD

12 guage bird shot

steveinaz

**** on its head, they hate that.

gmorris

Sid, someday when you get a little older, you will find a nice girl and appreciate having a woodpecker.

gshisme

Originally posted by Polkmaniac
12 guage bird shot

Like he said.

ND13

Originally posted by Polkmaniac
12 guage bird shot

I'll third that, but if you want to do it a little quieter, get a big ole alleycat and let it loose under the tree. If it doesn't run away, it'll eventually make it's way up the tree and bye bye birdy. Oh and it helps if the cat hasn't eaten in a couple of days.;)

Airplay355

take cinnamon oil and rub it on the side of the house, the wood will absorb it and when he sticks his **** in there its gonna feel like its on fire.


i actually just made all of that up. ill 4th the bird shot idea.

Jstas

Get rid of the food source. Stop fighting the wood **** and call an exterminator to deal with the carpenter bee/ant problem.

PolkThug

Originally posted by Jstas
Get rid of the food source. Stop fighting the wood **** and call an exterminator to deal with the carpenter bee/ant problem.

We have a winner!

PolkThug

"How do you get rid of a woodpecker?"

Cold shower.

Skynut

I saw this coyote on t.v. try to do it with a bunch of stuff from ACME.
Maybe you can hire him, he seemed to have a lot of good ideas.

Oh never mind, that was a road runner.
My bad.

VR3

Originally posted by Jstas
Get rid of the food source. Stop fighting the wood **** and call an exterminator to deal with the carpenter bee/ant problem.

Trust me, we've done this... it is kind of hard to fight an enemy that lives around the entire perimeter of your house... the only way to get rid of carpenter bees is to spray the posion in their hole, then plug the hole...

Kind of hard to do this when they are everywhere... we really need vinyl siding...

madmax

Sorry, it is impossible to get rid of a woodpecker. He will die one day anyway.

madmax

dragon1952

From the following website pertaining to N.C. These are federally protected birds! LOL! Better can the shotgun idea

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/mecklenburg/depts/hort/wild/#WOOD%20PECKERS

"WOODPECKERS BANGING OR MAKING HOLES IN THE HOME REPELLENTS Mostly ineffective

Tanglefoot ( a non-toxic sticky compound available in most hardware and garden stores) can be placed on tar paper which has been tacked on to the structure where they are attacking. OR hardware cloth could also be tacked over it. However, the birds may just move further down.

Flashy objects (aluminum, mirrors), plastic snakes or owls, can be placed as a deterrent but they have to be moved several times per week.

CONTROL

They are federally protected birds. Lethal methods are illegal. Woodpeckers "attack" a home for several reasons:

they may bang against wood or metal as a sounding board to intimidate other wood peckers

if they are making many small holes (1/4 inch) in wood, they are probably seeking insects.

if they are making large holes (3 inches or greater) they may be making a nest

If they are damaging wood, contact a carpenter to see if the wood is sound. Decayed wood is great for bugs and for nesting. Replace wood.

Refinishing and coating the wood with paint may help. Bird netting or wire mesh could temporarily be placed between the eaves and the wall to keep them out of a certain area."

Notice the "mostly ineffective" qualifier for repellents. I think madmax is correct

madmax

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3058.shtml

Their life span is about 10 years. He should be gone by June 25th, 2014.

As a matter of fact the ones attacking my house lasted from about 1994 until 2003. Seem to be gone now...

madmax

Skynut

The coyote is under no mans jurisdiction... Call the coyote.

VR3

Well... if he comes within distance of me harming him...he better believe he'll have a much shorter life than 10 years... he could be a bald eagle for all I care..but when he is pecking right outside MY ROOM at 6:30 EVERY MORNING...he is going to get something removed.... :mad:

He dosnt like having his holes covered up though, which is actually a somewhat good thing he is knocking a hole in the siding..if I could just catch him when he starts it and I could just put caulk all throughout the tunnel in the siding before he breaks it all up...kill two "birds" with one stone...

But I thought the carpenter bees were bad...I guess I hadn't seen anything.

Skynut

Maybe mix cayanne pepper with vaseline and squish it in the holes.
He will get a hot wood **** then.

Polkersince85

Hang a BugLite near it, and leave it on, nice birdfeeder.

first capital

We had one who would go after an old metal wheelbarrow at 5 am. We moved the wheelbarrow!

DarqueKnight

Do woodpeckers get headaches from constantly hammering their heads into wood and other hard objects? If not, why not?

nadams

Allow me to demonstrate using a text model.... the parenthesis are the skull.... and, well... ( . )

lot of empty space, eh?

Airplay355

I think they have a layer of fat, or air pockets that cushion their brain. I'm sure if you banged ur head constantly youd only live 10 years too

dragon1952

Originally posted by Airplay355
I think they have a layer of fat, or air pockets that cushion their brain. I'm sure if you banged ur head constantly youd only live 10 years too

LOL! Yep.....or at the very least end up like Muhammed Ali!

MacLeod

Originally posted by steveinaz
**** on its head, they hate that.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

The mental picture this brought up is simply hilarious!