Woodpeckers also peck to find food.
How to stop woodpeckers from eating your siding.
Just make sure that the woodpecker is not living in your home.
1 it is metal 2 it changes the sound and 3 woodpeckers don t like shiny objects.
The options are limited and for the most part all non lethal.
How to stop woodpeckers from pecking on your house.
The flashing will stop the pecking at that spot because.
If a woodpecker is destroying your wooden siding there are several steps you can take to stop the pecking and to prevent the problem from reoccurring.
Cover all holes as soon as possible.
If they re looking for insects in your siding the holes will be small shallow.
I don t mind that so much as i do when they decide to use my wood siding for their rat tat tatting.
This method works particularly well if they are attacking your cedar siding in search of insects set these up away from your house and the woodpeckers should leave you alone.
Place aluminum flashing over the areas where the woodpecker is pecking.
And you re suddenly woken up by the noise of a woodpecker pecking away on the side your house.
Every spring they enjoy hammering away at it.
If you have ever been awakened by a woodpecker banging away at your house you know the frustration that can bring.
If the woodpecker activity is a prelude to nesting offering a birdhouse of an appropriate size for the woodpecker species can give them a ready made cavity.
Feed them with woodpecker suet cakes.
These cakes are placed inside a woodpecker suet feeder where they can rest and chow down.
Hanging aluminum windmills foil strips or similar shiny reflective materials may scare the woodpecker away.
We have a metal chimney pipe that apparently makes an amazing sound to a woodpecker.
Woodpecker suet cakes are one of these birds favorite foods.
Get rid of the noisy birds with these 5 tricks.
Place a suet woodpecker feeder near the outside of your home.
Woodpeckers can find even this wood irresistible and they will start to make a hole in it in no time.
Hang the feeder well away from the ground so the suet doesn t get eaten by other creatures.
What can you do.
A woodpecker can cause more than just a headache we re talking real damage to your property.
To be most effective place the house over or very near the area where the pecking has occurred as that is obviously a desirable nesting site.
They like wood boring insects especially the larvae of carpenter bees.