A woodpecker is tearing into my siding and trim. How can I make it go away?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - A woodpecker is tearing into my siding and trim. How can I make it go away?

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:13:25 PM EDT

Little fucker has been pecking away and has done some damage. What can I do to make him go away?

Due to proximity of neighbors I cannot shoot it

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:14:16 PM EDT

[#1]

Pellet Gun?

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:14:52 PM EDT

[#2]

Fire.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:15:23 PM EDT

[#3]

Anti-freeze bird bath.........

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:15:23 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Little fucker has been pecking away and has done some damage. What can I do to make him go away?

Due to proximity of neighbors I cannot shoot it

Airsoft??

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:17:26 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Fire.

That or nuke it from orbit.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:18:28 PM EDT

[#6]

Raid wasp and hornet 20ft spray. He'll leave angry.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:22:42 PM EDT

[#7]

buy some suet bird food ,and he will leave your junk alone.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:23:40 PM EDT

[#8]

one of those Drozd fully automatic bb guns may be in order.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:24:25 PM EDT

[#9]

blowgun did the trick for me.. It wont kill him but it will pin him to the wall, then you can proceed to snap his neck..

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:24:49 PM EDT

[#10]

Air rifle, SSS

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:26:04 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Little fucker has been pecking away and has done some damage. What can I do to make him go away?

Due to proximity of neighbors I cannot shoot it

Airsoft??

I chased a few ravens away from my place right after I moved in. They would sit on the power line and raise holy hell. I put a few carefully aimed Airsoft rounds at them and they were gone.

Surprisingly enough, they hardly ever come by any more and that was 4 years ago. But, ravens are very smart MF'ers.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:26:16 PM EDT

[#12]

This + This is how you make the problem go away

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:26:25 PM EDT

[#13]

habenero sauce
rub on pecker hole
profit!

(put some habenero sauce on the woodpecker hole in your wall too...)

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:32:14 PM EDT

[#14]

give it a wood vaginer.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:32:39 PM EDT

[#15]

Maybe dealing with the problem in your house thats attracting him will solve the problem. He is attacking your house because he thinks there is a meal or something in your walls.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:34:33 PM EDT

[#16]

Burn down the house. Without the house he won't have anything to peck at and bother you.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:35:27 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Burn down the house. Without the house he won't have anything to peck at and bother you.

why stop at the house? who not help your neighors as well?

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:40:33 PM EDT

[#18]

.177, round of choice since I was 7 years old.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:42:00 PM EDT

[#19]

your house has bugs dude.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:42:39 PM EDT

[#20]

Hang those sticky mouse traps all over your house.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:43:41 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Maybe dealing with the problem in your house thats attracting him will solve the problem. He is attacking your house because he thinks there is a meal or something in your walls.

+1 Kill the termites first before you kill the birds.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:43:41 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Maybe dealing with the problem in your house thats attracting him will solve the problem. He is attacking your house because he thinks there is a meal or something in your walls.

My mom had the same problem. Turned out there were wasps under the siding. She called an exterminator & once the wasps were gone so was the woodpecker.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:46:41 PM EDT

[#23]

ETA: killing the bugs that are living in your house seems much more reasonable, but this is Arfcom, dammit.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:47:43 PM EDT

[#24]

It might be illegal to wack a woodpecker so take the advice on shooting the little bugger with a grain of salt.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:49:45 PM EDT

[#25]

One of my old man's neighbors (ex-SF guy) had one that was driving him bonkers, and tearing up the wood siding on his house... so he did it in with a shotgun, right in the middle of a residential neighborhood, right on the side of his own home.

One early morning my Dad heard a "BOOM," looked outside, and saw the neighbor standing there with a smoking shotgun, and a hole in the side of his house, right above the garage. The neighbor nodded once, slung the shotgun over his shoulder, and went back in the house.

Protected species or not, he'd simply had enough.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:51:28 PM EDT

[#26]

FINALLY!!!!

Birdshot.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:53:06 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
habenero sauce
rub on pecker hole
profit!

(put some habenero sauce on the woodpecker hole in your wall too...)

this works pretty well..I used Rooster hot sauce though...mixed with water and sprayed on....the little pecker hasn't been back since.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:53:42 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
FINALLY!!!!

Birdshot.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:54:09 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
FINALLY!!!!

Birdshot.

lol!

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:59:36 PM EDT

[#30]

Most birds fear the owl. Get some fakes and move em around the yard.

Posted: 9/12/2010 12:59:46 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
FINALLY!!!!

Birdshot.

Birdshot is only good for.... oh, wait.

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:03:35 PM EDT

[#32]

Use some bird net, it's plastic and very fine black netting. String it from the bottom of the fascia and run it to the ground and use some cut up coat hangers bent into a U shape to anchor it. The little fucker will hit it and actually might strangle itself if caught for too long.

It's found at most Menards, Home Depots, and some Ace Hardware's

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:18:44 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

your house has bugs dude.

Or it just has round hole soffet vents. In my old house, the little fuckers actually got thru the wire mesh to make nests.

.177 caliber to the rescue.

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:22:07 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
FINALLY!!!!

Birdshot.

Birdshot finallyz found a use.

Danny

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:28:05 PM EDT

[#35]

Rat trap + peanutbutter tacked to where he's pecking. It works!

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:30:30 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

FINALLY!!!!

Birdshot.

Well played!

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:33:45 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
http://i55.tinypic.com/25jvx8g.jpg

ETA: killing the bugs that are living in your house seems much more reasonable, but this is Arfcom, dammit.