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Richard Cole, the founder of Cole's Wild Bird, has advice that can keep woodpeckers from pecking your home. Have you ever wondered why woodpeckers will peck on almost anything? It's not just about trying to eat or nest. Sometimes it's about announcing their territory.

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another question that people have
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commonly is that woodpeckers will Peck
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their home so what can they do about
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that that's difficult it really is a in
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the joke about the shotgun with the
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squirrels
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birds are protected and all these birds
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are pecking on their house all the
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woodpecker clan are protected it's
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against federal law to harm these birds
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so you can't just go out and shoot them
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unless you get a special permit to do so
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but they are doing two things there's
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two types like hitting the windows
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there's two things going on if you hear
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the constant drumming especially
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especially on ten like your gutters and
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it's loud
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that's a territorial call instead of
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just chirping real loud or singing like
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a Mockingbird they're drumming to make a
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noise to to announce their territory in
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their intent to hold the territory so
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they'll just they won't do any damage
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but don't find something loud like a
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gutter to pound on for noise the other
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thing is when they start knocking holes
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in your wood and railings around your
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deck in the side of a chimney they're
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doing that for two reasons one either
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they're trying to knock a hole for
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nesting cavity typically done on the
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side of a chimney where it's big and not
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a guardrail 'uncle there there are smart
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enough to know that they can't build a
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nest into a handrail but if they hear an
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insect in there especially carpenter
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bees
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get up in in these areas and they'll
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hear that they'll start drilling a long
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horizontal hole looking for the
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carpenter bee larvae so they can eat
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them so you've got you've got them
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looking for a nesting spot typically on
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the chimney looking for food to clean
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railings and under edges of things and
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they'll draw a horizontal hole so that
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they'll not round holes to make a
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nesting cavity it's difficult to stop it
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one of the problems is we tend to take
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down the trees and build a house and
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paint it basically a dead wood color the
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browns and grays are particularly
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successful - woodpecker damage you can
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temporarily if you get one drilling a
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hole round pipe hole up on your chimney
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and all not just drumming on the metal
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but trying to knock holding wood get up
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there and just put a tarp over it for a
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while until they lose that urge to war
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and trying
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a nesting thing there other than that
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there's not a lot you can do paint your
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house of slightly different color that
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would help shoot them all Doh Doh ice
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cubes at them Schumer - broom do a noise
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maker they will get a screw it you may
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take a few weeks but they'll finally
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give up and move somewhere else
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