Quoting from an article on woodpeckers from penn state extension.
How to stop woodpeckers from pecking gutters.
Why do woodpeckers peck.
If the woodpecker favors a specific spot on your gutters you can also take measures to deaden the sound.
If a woodpecker is slowly moving around your roof or siding and pecking in different locations over time then it is possible that the woodpecker is eating bugs from your siding.
Just make sure that the woodpecker is not living in your home.
This behavior known as drumming is a rhythmic pecking sequence.
Woodpeckers use the sound of their pecking to attract mates.
Woodpeckers like to feed on suet which is made from the fat of a cow and is available for purchase at wild bird or pet stores.
Woodpecker pecking on metal gutter 0 i recently hung a big bird feeder in my yard in front of my kitchen window.
When looking at how to deter woodpeckers make sure you deal with other issues such as carpenter ants carpenter bees leaf cutter bees wasps and others that dig into your roof eaves siding fences and trees.
Hang the feeder well away from the ground so the suet doesn t get eaten by other creatures.
Pecking is a natural behavior for this bird and their primary way of searching for food.
Placing some type of padding on the opposite side of the gutter from the drumming site can sometimes accomplish this.
Woodpeckers excavate rotting wood to find food.
Woodpeckers tend to follow pests.
The options are limited and for the most part all non lethal.
The flashing will stop the pecking at that spot because.
Place a suet woodpecker feeder near the outside of your home.
1 it is metal 2 it changes the sound and 3 woodpeckers don t like shiny objects.
They eat the bugs inside.
The louder the sound the farther his range for attracting mates.
To get an idea of why these feathered friends get their name we only have to look toward the most basic instinct of a woodpecker.
By pecking a woodpecker can pierce through the bark of a tree to retrieve their food source.
What can you do.
Back in the pre cable sat tv days tv antenna towers used to be all the rage for woodpeckers looking for love where i lived.
2 weeks later i have 2 3 woodpeckers pecking on the metal gutters everyday.
Place aluminum flashing over the areas where the woodpecker is pecking.
And you re suddenly woken up by the noise of a woodpecker pecking away on the side your house.
While the woodpecker is damaging your siding it s not the woodpecker s fault.
If you have problems with those pests woodpeckers will keep coming back.
