Ok, slightly different retarded bird than our original thread in this section.
We've had what we 'think' is a woodpecker under the eves of the side of our house constantly pecking away for quite some time now. I took a look a couple of weeks ago and didn't see anything outside of the bird flying away. It was out there again today and the wife went out to look. She called and said there's a rather large hole in our stucco the bird has opened up for a nest! Damn bird must have one hell of a hard beak to have gotten thru the stucco siding on the house!!
Wire mesh, stucco repair and paint will be the easy part.
Now the question - how to keep the damn bird from coming back? I know moth balls will work to dissuade skunks from living under a deck. It worked! Using the same method and logic, I've gotten rid of a raccoon that dug thru a shake roof at my old house to nest in the attic. IIRC I was told that spraying ammonia on the tree trunk it was using to get to the roof would add an add'l deterrent to moth balls spread throughout the attic. It worked!
What's going to deter this damn bird? I don't know yet if the hole is in an area where I can just rig some screen to prevent it from getting to where the current hole is or not until it decides to go nest somewhere else.
We've had what we 'think' is a woodpecker under the eves of the side of our house constantly pecking away for quite some time now. I took a look a couple of weeks ago and didn't see anything outside of the bird flying away. It was out there again today and the wife went out to look. She called and said there's a rather large hole in our stucco the bird has opened up for a nest! Damn bird must have one hell of a hard beak to have gotten thru the stucco siding on the house!!
Wire mesh, stucco repair and paint will be the easy part.
Now the question - how to keep the damn bird from coming back? I know moth balls will work to dissuade skunks from living under a deck. It worked! Using the same method and logic, I've gotten rid of a raccoon that dug thru a shake roof at my old house to nest in the attic. IIRC I was told that spraying ammonia on the tree trunk it was using to get to the roof would add an add'l deterrent to moth balls spread throughout the attic. It worked!
What's going to deter this damn bird? I don't know yet if the hole is in an area where I can just rig some screen to prevent it from getting to where the current hole is or not until it decides to go nest somewhere else.
