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- home | table of contents - IntroductionWoodpeckers damage Forest Service facilities in urban areas as well as those in remote settings. The damage can be relatively large holes used for nesting cavities, small cone-shaped holes the woodpeckers make as they search for insects, or paint chipped off by woodpeckers drumming on the sides of buildings. Most damage to buildings seems to be near the eaves, especially in places where woodpeckers can get a foothold. Woodpeckers do not limit their activities to wood buildings. One space shuttle mission was delayed while workers repaired damage to foam insulation on the shuttle�s external fuel tanks.
No one seems to know for sure why woodpeckers damage buildings. Some suggestions include:
Help! Woodpecker on a RampageThis is a last, desperate appeal for succor from any knowledgeable authority, excluding the Missoula Police Department or the Fire Department, who, while dealing on a daily basis with criminals, nuisances and felonious destroyers of wooden buildings, may have the expertise to deal with the villain who has wrecked property and disturbed the quasi-rural atmosphere of peace and quietude that characterizes our mid-Rattlesnake Elysium.I refer of course to the big, fat, demented woodpecker who has for the last month or so made it his business to hack 6-inch holes in my cedar siding and the inch-thick underlying Thermax which I had never before considered to be a source of tasty insectiferous nutrition, being distinctly non-organic�. Will no one rid me of this meddlesome woodpecker? More to the point, can someone tell me how to patch Thermax and vertical-channel cedar siding? HELP! Excerpts from a letter to the editor of the Missoulian in Missoula, MT. |
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