[Green Squall]

I'm being plagued by critters!! There's a woodpecker that has caused unbelievable damage to the side of my house. Wow those things work fast! I've been taking potshots at it with a pellet gun to no avail. Can't get close enough without it flying away. Ideas?

[troutman]

You're lucky it's getting cold.

The Locusts won't arrive till next Summer.

[St. Phatty]

Originally Posted by Green Squall

I'm being plagued by critters!! There's a woodpecker that has caused unbelievable damage to the side of my house. Wow those things work fast! I've been taking potshots at it with a pellet gun to no avail. Can't get close enough without it flying away. Ideas?

Create a better habitat for it.

It likes your house. It doesn't know the details.

Imagine a wood reconstruct of your house, with stashes of mealworms and maybe, other woodpeckers.


Or - build some stairs near where the woodpecker pecks, and get a cat. Unless you already have a dog. Something so your pet can get closer to the area the woodpecker is pecking.

[MrBungle]

Shooting it is probably a bad idea.. They are protected species I believe....

I've read people put out suet feeders away from their home to deter the woodpeckers...

[troutman]

Put a bird feeder away from the house and shoot from behind a curtain in the window.

That's how Lee Harvey Oswald did it I think.

[RB56]

If the woodpecker is attacking your house it is doing so because there are insects living in the wood. That's your primary problem. Woodpeckers don't eat wood.

Had a stump in the backyard that I had been digging at for years. Big red headed woodpecker came in and worked on it for a week straight. Left me a nice, empty hole.

[Green Squall]

Originally Posted by RB56

If the woodpecker is attacking your house it is doing so because there are insects living in the wood. That's your primary problem. Woodpeckers don't eat wood.

Had a stump in the backyard that I had been digging at for years. Big red headed woodpecker came in and worked on it for a week straight. Left me a nice, empty hole.

Pretty sure its a downy woodpecker and its just being an asshole. He's attacking a section of house where the wood was replaced and repaired a couple summers ago, so I don't think there is any rot or bugs.

I've also read that woodpeckers often do this to establish territory.

[troutman]

[shithawk420]

I always thought woody woodpecker was a dick.he's an instagator!hehehahahe!

But if I'm not mistaken don't they make there nests in the side of houses and trees like this too?I would just shoot it unless your in the suburbs.I'm not into hurting birds and animals but he has to go if he's peckering your wood.lol