Tips On How To Get Rid Of Woodpeckers

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Tips on how to get rid of those pesky woodpeckers. Are woodpeckers ruining the wood on your home? Are they keeping you awake? Richard Cole, the founder of Cole's Wild Bird Products has some great tips for keeping woodpeckers away from your home. He admits it's a challenging problem, but in this video you should get some helpful ideas.
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let's talk about woodpeckers so this is
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one of the things that we see that
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people are most interested in and we've
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had it lately woodpecker pecking away on
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the house what can you do about it
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that's an interesting subject it's hard
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to stop the woodpeckers I always tell
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people we go into the forest we cut down
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all the trees and we put a big piece of
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wood up there that's painted Brown or
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grain like a piece of dead wood and it
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wonder why the woodpeckers are hitting
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on it there's two reasons the
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woodpeckers will pound on a house or
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your gutter one is a territorial call is
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it like a some bird will sit out there
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and sing their song to announce their
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territory this is mine this is where I
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want to raise a family and hello females
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I'm right over here so that's why I sing
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the woodpeckers don't sing like that
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they might make a call or two but they
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drum you hear that or slower if it's a
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bigger woodpecker pounding on something
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that makes a loud of a resonant it's not
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sound as they can gutters are fantastic
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chimney boxes are pretty good so you'll
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hear that drumming on something that
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makes a lot of noise that's their
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territory
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that'll subside in a few weeks maybe
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three four weeks max it'll probably be
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like a two-week period we hear a lot of
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it and that's it for the year really and
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it won't do any damage yeah they're not
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gonna hurt your gutters they're not
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gonna really hurt your chimney boxes by
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drumming or under the down spot on the
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soffit or something and you think makes
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noise two other reasons they're gonna
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two reasons they'll do damage one these
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guys live on insects they drill holes
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and trees and things looking for bugs
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larvae especially so you'll see along up
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under a deck railing or in skinny pieces
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of wood they'll come in here and drill a
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series of little holes looking for
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especially carpenter bees my house has
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been attacked several times not the main
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part but around the little pieces of
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wood on the deck and up under the deck
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wherever a carpenter bee has gotten in
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drilled a little hole in a tunnel the
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wood
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come along and start knocking a hole in
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that tunnel to eat the larvae so that's
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not on the side of your house typically
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it's generally on your deck barely snow
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so you'll see a series of dotted holes
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or little strips horizontal or vertical
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where they're trying to get out some
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insects it has been reported that if
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some people have had like a little
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ticking clock right inside on their
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kitchen right next to the window and
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you'll have some woodpeckers pounding on
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the trim around the window trying to get
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to that but they think is a bug inside
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because they hear the little little
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noise like an insect moving inside of a
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chamber the other thing is nesting
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cavities they want a nest and the
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woodpeckers drill a big hole excavated
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out of a dead tree so they can go in and
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have and start their their breeding
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season right there in a nest and basic
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like a nest box in a tree you typically
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will see a large round hole maybe like
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this or not much smaller than this it'll
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be round beyond the side of your chimney
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where they this is a nice piece of dead
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tree and they'd knock a hole in it they
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may or may not use it depending on
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what's inside if there's insulation and
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a horizontal board right in there
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voila they've got a great nesting box
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right there it's hard to stop them
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because they're not down where you can
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walk around and and sure I've told
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people a lotta different things one just
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harass them you know don't don't think I
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even think about shooting em or harming
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them because that's illegal and you
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wouldn't want to do it anyhow but you
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can go out and harass them as soon as
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you hear the start go out there just

[@alanwelson7705]

really good advice, especially the last one! thanks!

[@kristopherdetar4346]

Bird people are more bazzare than horse people. I’m more like Elmer Fudd, I’ll just blast em !! LOL !!

[@fiddleDdee]

Hang small plastic grocery bags upside down- I pinned them at the top with push pins - they have been up there in strong winds and are fine. They eerily float around and look like live creatures - The wood peckers have not been back since I put them up - two months now

[@raymondbaron5429]

You got more time than I do

[@80glk5]

Most annoying bird in existence

[@nanettebarling1222]

They fill up my fireplace with acorns! Any place they see a hole, they will put as many acorns that it will fit. Now they are pecking the Eve's and it's a 2 story house.

[@rodstewart5610]

We have woodpeckers and other birds making holes in our Saguaro Cactus. How do we stop them?

[@mohunter68]

I've had a problem with wood peckers for years. And why they are a federaly protected bird I have no idea why? They are a nuisance and I've killed several of them. So I guess that I'm a criminal? I did however find a cure. I had one this year banging on my gutter and watched a video where you hang up old CD's where they like to beat on gutters and such and the banging stopped.

[@scottculli7851]

Oh my God, I went on this site for my mother, and found out what was happening to my railings outside on my deck

[@mohunter68]

If I had a possum or a cat digging underneath my house I would trap it and kill it, why would a hole drilling wood pecker be any different?

[@michelero4297]

A cat? You would kill a cat? May karma visit you

[@57RickH]

Throw pine cones at’em 😮

[@IceKicker18]

I have one pesky woodpecker drumming on our metal gutters. my GOD its so annoying

[@danorris5235]

Lotta people here seem confused as to why woodpeckers want to eat, live someplace, and attract a mate.
That being said, I also wonder how many are struggling with the same concerns the woodpecker has.

[@anamelendez-dejesus8337]

I dont want to scare my hummingbirds away. Just the others. How do you get rid of the others without losing my hummingbirds?

[@2ndshiftaudio300]

Well, my property is mine. And if I get him in my sights. He's mine.

[@valentinasmith9227]

have a plague of woodpeckers damaging my avocado tree and fruits help

[@nycmaverick]

so you cant do anything

[@AndersonERockefeller]

If it's destroying ur home shoot them, no other way around unless you wanna spend thousands of dollars in repairs! And they will continue to drill your home!

[@InspirebyKhan]

I have one pecking on my siding. I call this intruding. Its pissing me off. Damn bird needs to go away

[@madeonearth6506]

Be nice to him

[@rakautzphoto6901]

Is this meant for 5 year olds?

[@briellejacobs1045]

I would never book a photographer who talked to other people that way

[@markschnell]

Worthless information. I have a flock of Pecan Woodpeckers that have ruined 2 structures with hundreds of holes. Thousands of $ in damages. I don’t have the time to stand there all day and throw ice cubes at them...
The only thing that works is a shotgun.

[@markschnell]

Correction: Acorn Woodpeckers

[@InspirebyKhan]

Damn right

[@fiddleDdee]

I had five holes pecked, immediately put Flex tape over them and I put up small plastic grocery bags upside down , pinned at the top and they float eerliy and look like live creatures - they have been up there in strongs winds - I used push pins to tack them up - the woodpecker has not been back for two months now

[@MrElPelofino]

Protect what's yours! Lol

[@timmygilbert1371]

They can do major damage to a privacy fence . Im not gonna use ice cubes either . I will leave it at that ........... .