Now that I’ve got your attention… a potential customer called to say that a pileated woodpecker had blasted a hole in his siding way up high under a gable. Apparently this was a year or so ago, not recently. I’m happy to risk my neck climbing up there to stick on a new piece of siding, but I’m compelled to ask, will the woodpecker just come back a blast a new one? Or, did he eat whatever was there are is now long gone?
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most likely it was useing the house as a sounding board to mark territory...
but just in case check...
no nest... it (the bird) is history...
active nest... you got more problems than the last 30 different posters here have had with squirrels, moles, voles, spiders, snakes, mice, rats and cats combined..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Had a call on this same deal last year. They actually made a nest in the insulation and the HO waited until the babies fledged before she called me and wanted it covered in metal for fear that the same thing would happen again.
Bottom line, there's hundreds of square feet of cedar still available for them aside from my metal patch!!!!!!!
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Maybe I can get some repeat business here, patching the same spot every year!
When they tap, tap, tap it's usually in the spring and they are usually tapping on metal to 1) attract a mate and 2) mark a territory.
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Tap em back with a lead ball.
NOOOO, WAAAAAY.
They are beautiful birds, I love them.
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They are also Federally protected.
"It's always better to have regrets for things you've done than for things you wish you had done..........."
True!!!!!!!
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Thats kind what I was thinking for the reoccuring bird problems.
I wonder about the ediebility...
did some body say lunch..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I aint eating no pecker!
now that you put it that way....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
When living in British Columbia we lots of them peckers. Cedar was their favorite wood. We bought 2 fibre owls (full size) at local hardware store. Attached them to both gable ends: No more problems!
Don't know if mine was pileated or not, but I had a woodpecker create a hole about 1" in diameter in the soffit way up on my house. I waited until winter, not knowing if there were babies in there or not (I don't think so), and covered the hole with a metal cover used for octagonal electric boxes. Thinking back, I can't understand why I thought that would deter the bird, since he could just pick a new spot on the soffit a few inches away, but in fact, that bird (or any ever) never came back.
We have a lot of woodpeckers in our area is SW CT. Last summer, my neighbor had a guy out to replace a handful of cedar shakes from woodpecker damage. The guy swore that the woodpeckers would never peck through new cedar. The guy is just about wrapping up and we hear a 'knock knock knock' on the other side of the house. You guessed it! A woodpecker was drilling through a shake he just installed. A whole house full of old siding and this bird picked the one that was an hour old.
Just yesterday I was working on a house I am finishing and I see a woodpecker on the side of the house near an outside electrical outlet that doesn't have the box yet. Then I see him disappear. I chase him out and cut the drywall from the inside (the base is not installed yet and the box is at base level). Apparently, Icynene makes a very convenient nest material. This bird just had to clear some space and had a cozy little pad. There were no babies so I put a piece of flashing on the hole until the electrician comes back.
I've left a few sacrificial dead trees on the property but I still hear them knocking. We have Fiber Cement siding now so I'll see if they make it through.