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   deadmanmike | Nov 15, 2008 10:45am | #1

   "Now the maintenance cooperative is planning to shoot at least 50 woodpeckers within a week."

   Uneffingbelievable.

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   ANDYSZ2 | Nov 15, 2008 02:11pm | #2

   The cost of a guy waiting with a gun would be ridiculous and next to impossible to hit without further damage.

   Why not set up water cannons with  motion detectors, a couple of blasts and the woodpeckers would peck decks instead ;+)

   ANDYSZ2WHY DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT BEING A SOLE PROPRIETOR IS A REAL JOB?

   REMODELER/PUNCHOUT SPECIALIST

    

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   JeffinPA | Nov 15, 2008 03:18pm | #3

   There have been threads on how to handle them.

   Same problem with my sisters house.

   They found the foil balloons to do the trick.

    

   I am all for hunting so long as it is a game animal and something I am going to eat.  Woodpeckers are not on my diet and if  I want to practice shooting things flying thru the air, I will go skeet shooting.  (more nutritious than woodpecker too)

   Amazing that with all the differing opinions on hunting, that someone would even concider this as a viable solution.  Doesnt sound like a responsible solution to me.

    

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   USAnigel | Nov 15, 2008 03:50pm | #4

   Woodpeckers are protected by the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act as migratory, non game birds.

   Besides killing a few won't stop them, its like people they keep coming back.......

   That's going to be a adventure.

   I stopped them on my house with metal capping, they could not hold on to start wood pecking!

   
   

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   Edited 11/15/2008 7:52 am ET by USAnigel

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   popawheelie | Nov 15, 2008 07:23pm | #5

   A church we attended had this problem. They installed a battery operated machine in the area. It senses the noise from pecking and a big spider pops out.

   I've heard this called a startle response. When an animal starts a behavior that you want to stop you startle it. So a fixed object like a plastic owl they get used to and aren't startled.

   It has to move or startle them.

   Here's the product they installed. They put it in a little sheetmetal house near the top of the wall to protect it and keep it out of sight.

   http://www.attackspider.com/?gclid=CNCduM7L95YCFQpzHgodRXnpYA

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   SquarePeg | Nov 15, 2008 07:41pm | #6

   That article really irritates me. Put up a startle machine and put woodpecker feeders up away from the houses.