Howdy All,
Anyone out there have Woodpeckers beat holes in Dry-Vit?
My customers house is under attack by these little flying fowls, About fifteen different Holes.
Any help on how to keep the birds away?
Thank You
Howdy All,
Anyone out there have Woodpeckers beat holes in Dry-Vit?
My customers house is under attack by these little flying fowls, About fifteen different Holes.
Any help on how to keep the birds away?
Thank You
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I'm thinking maybe some type of reactive armor, like military tanks and troop carriers have. The best way to defeat explosively-formed penetrators is to explode back at them, and disturb their stand-off distance.
Just battin' ideas around.
Forrest
Do you also have the same car alarm as James Bond did in the 'Spy who loved me'
No - I have little stickers on the windows that say This Car is Protected By a Passive Alarm System. If you break in the electronic voice says, "Oh, leave me alone - really - I wouldn't be any good. No - oh, hell, do whatever".
No break-ins so far.
Forrest
Thanks for the in put. I will try the suet and see what happens.
Shooting the little fiendish fowls is not good, as home owner will miss and just put more holes in dry vitThanks again
maybe some type of reactive armor
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Wait for summer. It's a spring thing.
As an long-time green weenie Audubon member, let me be the first to say that most of the woodpeckers are particularly dumb birds. While a crow might be frustratingly clever in resisting "training" attempts, a woodpecker is likely to be frustratingly stupid in resisting your attempts.
That said, some folks have marginal success hanging up "wind chimes" of mylar strips, or even CD's (too bad AOL doesn't send out 30 a month anymore...) at the site of attack to distract them. If it's prospective nest building, it might work.
Unfortunately, after they've knocked a bunch of holes in the stucco, the subsequent bug infestation is going to make for some nice woodpecker smorgasborgs down the road... Then they'll have a whole new reason to be rattling away at the siding.
I had a Flicker that used to pound the metal chimney flue every morning around 4:30am. The chimney was centered on the floor plan, and it sounded like a freaking fire alarm... Fortunately, his impressive efforts must have led to some hot bird-on-bird action: within a week or two it stopped. It took another week for me to learn how to sleep until morning again. I kept waking up at 4:00am cringing in anticipation...
Please don't shoot them. They probably don't taste good, and you could get in trouble. And they're pretty. Just dumb. Think of them as the fashion models of the bird world.
But you might want to check just to make sure their aren't any bugs up in those walls already. They're smart about one thing: eating bugs.
-t
"hot bird on bird action"
Yeah, my dad had one for a while who would rap on the gutter right outside his bedroom window at first dawn. But i don't know if that one ever got lucky.
Get one of those carbide cannons they use for crows in corn fields. They'll drive the Peckers and the nieghbors away.
Dont do the fake owl thing.House i did out of cedar had flickers pecking on it and the owners stuck a fake owl on a lil shelf on the wall.The flickers thought it was a great place to to shelter the entrance to thier new home they excavated under it.
"marginal sucess" That means they don't work at all, ever. But then again I don't know of anything that does. I had the manager of a state wildlife agency ask me to shoot the ones that constantly pecked holes in his office.
I have a woodpecker that comes to peck on my metal flue for the past 3 years now. Luckily for me he wasn't such an early riser. The 1st time he did it I was running around my basement wondering what the hell was wrong with my pipes! "Umm there seems to be something very wrong with our furnace-and it's off!" I'll never forget that day.
I got woodpeckers all over the place. Had one on the gutter last week right outside the window 5:30 am. went downstairs, outside, hose was right below him. He let me reach down, turn it on and start spraying him. he sat there for over a second getting hit with water, and it still looked like he left reluctantly. As soon as he took of, I heard another one answering from the woods. Hope I cooled off that hot action.
Had a flicker take out the gable vent 2 1/2 years ago. Always came right after my difficult second baby went down for his nap. One saturday I was home when he came knockin, my precious 2 yo daughter told me that the woodpeckers name was "dammit". My wife looked a little embarassed.
Put suet feeders out, we have three species that come to ours.
cat walk ...
and a big hungry cat.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
convince the insects to quit living in those walls.
The insects are there because they like moisture, and EIFS is famous for harbouring moisture.
Odds are good that these folks have a larger problem than woodpeckers.
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