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If you've ever been awoken at 6:00 am by a woodpecker
hell-bent on boring a hole through the side of your house,
ostensibly with the aim of building a nest inside the wall
where it can lay eggs which will hatch into MORE
woodpeckers INSIDE your wall, you will understand the
absolute necessity
of this invention.
PETA can kiss my ass.
Are there no brickpeckers?
http://4.bp.blogspo.../s1600/IMG_3197.JPG
The makers of these holes would ventilate your masonry [lurch, Mar 25 2015]
Not the brick, no:
http://animals.pawn...ow-mortar-8598.html
[MechE, Mar 25 2015]
So, the opposite of this, then?
https://xkcd.com/614/
[pertinax, Mar 29 2015]
[link]
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A couple of coats with a solution of silver fulminate
should do the trick. |
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I thought they generally nested in the same places they
found food. In other words, if they're digging into your wall,
it's because you've got bugs. |
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I had a woodpecker pecking at my window a few years back.
I was just excited at seeing a woodpecker. |
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Admittedly, it didn't keep coming back at 6 am. At least, I don't think it did; I do sleep quite well. |
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At 6:00 AM? The songbirds at my place go off at 5:00, I'll trade you. |
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The bugs at least keep the noise down, so on that
basis they're better roommates than the birds. I've
never heard bugs making a racket at 6 am. The
bugs don't bother me because they STAY in the
walls. That damn woodpecker, though... I seriously
thought someone was hammering on the outside
wall of my house, or possibly my neighbor
hammering on the wall nearest mine. |
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Build your house out of something sensible. There's no such
thing as a brickpecker. |
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If your house isn't infested, then the woodpecker is just using it as sounding board as the loudest thing around. The one that makes a racket first thing in the morning here uses the metal streetlight out front. |
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Try sticking one of those plastic owls near that spot. |
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Time to Bake the Scaregrine Falcon, methinks... |
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Yeah, it might be one of those spring mate-seeking rituals... |
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" Hey baby ! Check it out ! I can beat my head against the wall faster and louder than all the other boys - you want to have my babies ! " |
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//That damn woodpecker, though... I seriously thought someone was hammering on the outside wall of my house, or possibly my neighbor hammering on the wall nearest mine. |
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If I were your neighbor I would hammer on your walls when I saw woodpeckers around. |
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We get squirrel play at 6AM and racoons sleeping on top of skylights. It's nature, enjoy it. |
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// It's nature, enjoy it. // |
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... by killing it, then roasting it slowly over an open wood fire. |
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My thoughts exactly, 8th. |
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What [the porpoise] said. |
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You could go the opposite way [21Q]. Cover your siding with
a viscous coating - something along the lines of bitumen.
The woodpecker gets tries to peck at it and immediately
gets stuck, providing a layer of feathery insulation against
sound and heat transfer. Sort of a La Brea Tar Pits effect
replete with everchanging art display. |
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Good idea ... can go straight over the open fire, no need to kill it first. |
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Won't do much to stop the woodpeckers, though... |
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The north-east orangery was once overrun by
gemsbok. Turned out they were living in the skirting. |
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Murdering God's little creatures [+] |
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It's much less murder than it is assisted suicide.
Think of it as death with dignity for nature's little
creatures. |
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//Cover your siding with a viscous coating - something along
the lines of bitumen.// |
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That non-drying anti-vandal paint should do the job. That
stuff never comes out of clothes/feathers |
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