This spring my house was attacked by those flying, pecking problem makers! The hell of this for me its that I paid several thousand dollars last summer to have the house painted! The cost included replacing any rotted natural wood trim with synthetic wood. Did the carpentry crew simply get lazy last year and not replace trim in areas that the estimator had not included? Or did these pecked areas rot over the winter exposing the areas to woodpeckers? And the pecked-to-shit areas are higher up than I have ladder or inclination to reach...

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I have a Downy Woodpecker that apparently is the worlds most stupid woodpecker. He constantly pecks on the synthetic siding of my building. No bugs to eat on that stuff!
I also have Pileated Woodpeckers. Think of a woodpecker the size of a crow! They make quite a racket.

That wood is rotten. Probably full of termites too.

The woodpeckers did you a favor.

The woodpeckers don't work for free. They're after a meal and there's one there somewhere.
That's the real problem.
Where I live, carpenter bees are a big problem and the result looks like yours.

We have one that, at sunrise every morning, hammers on the metal chimney cap for a minute.

Thursday our plumber put in an extended furnace vent cap. Last night a woodpecker discovered it. Could hear it throughout the house. Luckily it only lasted a couple minutes.

I always thought they make that loud noise to attract a future ex wife.

We have a few, but they luckily stick to the trees

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...Think of a woodpecker the size of a crow!...

Yikes! that would be a big bird.

Well, I'm going to have to find a handyman to get those rotted boards down and new synthetic trim boards installed.

Some people try attaching shiny foil strips to blow around near areas woodpeckers like to scare them but I never found that to work well. What did work was a suet feeder loaded with suet for woodpeckers in the backyard near the house. Apparently they go for the feeder since it’s easier and ignore the house. YMMV.

My experience was just the opposite. Feeders, especially suet brought them in. Then they started damaging all the houses in the neighborhood. By stopping feeding them, I cut their numbers way down.

People will tell you if they're pecking, it's because you have bugs. That's not 100% true, some do it as a means of communication. After listening to them banging on the metal vent hood up north most of my life, I can certainly believe that. They're also destroyed my neighbors trim boards and siding, none of which is actual wood.

I had a ladderback woodpecker would bang the heck out of a metal rain gutter, little bastard.

Have you ever seen utility poles that were wrapped in hardware cloth ? They can wreak havoc on a wood pole .

Same fischtown. It’s loud as hell when they hit the rain gutter.