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Although the woodpecker is a beautiful bird, they can often be a source of aggravation for the homeowner. The noise can be quite irritating when they have chosen your home for their favorite pecking place. In addition to the aggravation, the holes they make in your home are another problem.

Looking for a way to stop the birds from doing more damage to your home is imperative. There are quite a few repellents designed to help. The use of suet feeders is another. This is one way of stopping them from filling your home with holes.

There are also solutions made especially for filling holes made by woodpeckers. They are non-toxic and will not harm the birds. Often they will move on to another area.

There are also visual aids that will help to scare the woodpecker away from your home. Used in combination with other methods, these are often effective. The use of flash tape, such as Mylar has shown success at scaring the birds away.

The woodpecker has natural enemies such as the owl. By using recordings of this and other frightening sounds many people have gotten the birds to relocate. Gun shots are one of these noises. Placing an owl decoy in close proximity of the areas the woodpeckers frequent often will keep them away. You must remember to move it around so that it will seem more real.

One method that shown success is putting a pole in your yard with suet for the woodpecker. They feed on insects such as bees, termites and ants, so ridding your home of these bugs can help. The use of non-toxic sprays are a good way to deter woodpeckers as well.

Woodpeckers are a federally protected species so anything done to harm these birds can result in a large fine. The use of wind chimes will often deter the woodpeckers. Use a shiny metal type because woodpeckers do not like shiny objects. When they move as the wind blows catching the sun, this can be a good way of keeping these birds away.

The holes they make for nesting and searching for insects can ruin your home’s siding. The need for a solution to this problem is immediate. One way that has proved effective is to cover the spots they are using to feed with a strong cloth, such as hardware cloth. Cover the area with this cloth and make sure you have an alternative area already set up for them, such as the pole with suet, in order to get them to move to another area.

This has proven effective at keeping them permanently relocated after you remove the hardware cloth. The key to getting the woodpecker to relocate is patience. When you consider all the methods and put them to use you will have better success at relocating the woodpecker.