"Mark & Juanita" wrote in message
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My shop has become a target for woodpeckers and I'm fighting having them
burrowing holes in the siding. This isn't just a small inconvenience, it
is becoming a major damage issue. Has anybody found something (besides
shooting them -- not wanting to try that method to start) to get rid of
them. My folks found the following: http://www.kabatape.com but it's
mighty spendy. I suppose I could try real electrical fencing to
accomplish
the same thing by running the hot and a ground wire in close proximity.

Any experience or ideas would be welcome.

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If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough

I had this exact problem. I called the Audobon society and it has happened
enough that they connected me to a recording. The recording suggested
either hanging CD's near where the Woodpeckers did their damage or to put
aluminum foil on a 12" pizza cardboard and draw a pair of eyes and a mouth
with a marker on the aluminum foil. Not wanting my house to look like a joke
I chose the CDs and I have not had a problem since. I had two areas where
the woodpeckers did their damage so I hung two cds in each area. The CDs
were attached to each other in that CD number one hung from a string
attached to the house and CD number two hung from a string attached to CD
number 1. I assume the sun or light flashing off of the rotating CDs is what
scared them away. Given how may CDs are lying around my house, the cost was
$0.